The point for me is that all these people who were smirking at those of us who thought in 2023 that LLMs had the potential to do real intellectual work turned out to be completely wrong.

I’m a super skeptical guy. I was late to the ChatGPT party because it sounded silly. I didn’t even try it for a long time. As soon as I started giving it a chance, my attitudes started changing very quickly.

That’s why it’s so hard for me to understand people like the author or give them the benefit of the doubt. If I could see it as just some guy, why couldn’t they?

Skepticism is a fine balance.

If you're not skeptical you invite idiocy to your bed to sleep with you.

If you're too skeptical you put yourself in a box of ignorance that puts you at a disadvantage.

Skepticism doesn't really work well without the dialectic. For dialectics to work well you need knowledge of your arguments and counter arguments.

The problem with most articles and online posts is we get "no no no" and "yes yes yes" and very few "well, maybe".