Ive done a couple exploratory learning with AIs and wow could it help with learning.

Imo we may be messing up the economy with AIs. They should be engineering better workers, not being employed to make one person do the work of three poorly.

The power of AIs to smooth learning and raise expertise, rather than replace it, should be the adaptation goal. Obviously AIs as work assistants are powerful, but all the AI bullshitting CEOs overselling AIs is really damaging on the whole economic level

Particularly because the current marketing leads to the next generation abandoning roles that AI bullshitters claim are perfectly replaced.

It's like the urbanization demographic bomb on steroids.

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chadcmulligan 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I find myself worrying the AI bubble will pop and we'll lose this aspect of AI's without it ever being properly explored. Instead of doomscrolling now I find myself firing up claude and saying 'explain ... to me' and it proceeds to tell me all about it. I can ask it questions and it seems fairly right - at least right enough for me to proceed, it's way better at this than building code, in my experience anyway.

	▲	andyferris 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		When people say the "bubble will pop" it's meant in analogy to the dotcom era - businesses and investers lost money, but the internet (and its opportunities) didn't vanish. Even open-weight local models are becoming good enough for teaching yourself quite a range of stuff, especially the beginner aspects. LLMs are not going to simply disappear because of a financial reallignment. The worst thing might be not being able to access a super-duper frontier model for free?