Post #3770696

The linked Asimov story is only dimly related. You’d expect a culture relying on other minds, kept simple, somewhere between Brave New World and HG Wells’s Eloi. But it’s about the method of learning, not capacity or demonstrated ability. Like Bowie: “the fingerprints will prove that you couldn’t pass the test.” Your typical mid-century sci-fi civilization where The Committee has dictated how everything works, and obvious criticisms could be resolved by doing things very slightly differently. The twist is even less relevant, because it treats originality as some vanishingly rare thing that must be tricked out of people. Hard left turn into YA protagonist syndrome. Even though the main character just got done describing the simplicity of learning incremental improvements. Meanwhile the reality of LLM programming is, here’s an idiot robot that will do its best for literally anything you ask… and you are expected to spot where it has fucked up. The only way it’s better than letting project leaders run it themselves is if you are putting in the effort to babysit and second-guess the chatbot.