| ▲ | mooreds 5 days ago | |
I've posted this Asimov short story before, but this comment inspires me to post it again. http://employees.oneonta.edu/blechmjb/JBpages/m360/Professio... "Somewhere there must be men and women with capacity for original thought." He wrote that in 1957. 1957! | ||
| ▲ | Terr_ 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
The first sentence made me expect Asimov's "The Feeling of Power", which--avoiding spoilers--regards the (over-)use of calculators by a society. However, since I brought up calculators, I'd like to pre-emphasize something: They aren't analogous to today's LLMs. Most people don't offload their "what and why" executive decision-making to a calculator, calculators are orders of magnitude more trustworthy, and they don't emit plausible lies to cover their errors... Though that last does sound like another short-story premise. | ||
| ▲ | zem 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
perhaps my favourite of his short stories. there's also the more satirical "the feeling of power", which touches on the same theme https://ia800806.us.archive.org/20/items/TheFeelingOfPower/T... | ||
| ▲ | ducttapecrown 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
It turns out incremental thought is much better than original thought. I guess. | ||