You do enter into a context when you decide responding within a thread - let's see if we can forget this.
Your sentiment is that this is stack overflow c/p style business development. I understand this as: You receive instructions from a third party entity and carry them out verbatim. An because that to use a LLM that is anti-curiosity.
Let's delve into that, shall we?
1. Following instructions verbatim is as old as instructions. You could apply the same sentiment to mentorship, books, and well, Q/A systems. Just to inspire some reflection: Do you think good chefs ever use recipes or is that only bad chefs? It is quite well established that following instructions is key to learning.
2. You say that it is equivalent to follow instructions from an LLM to following instructions from SO - I think this misses a key feature of LLMs: The ability to index them. You can tell them they are care about business development in a narrow sense, to what it is index all future responses. This is realtime interactive and does probe behavior like changing what you index your instructions for, which indeed is the core of curiosity.
Based on this I hold on to my previous statement as a response yo your comment:
> Curiosity is about not being categorical - "It's Stack Overflow copy-pasting MkII." is extremely categorical and thus, anti-curiosity.
I do find that your line of thought is narrow and dismissed the elements to be curious about regarding LLMs.
In my comment I objected to “hacker spirit” and “curiosity” being misappropriated to mean what they don’t (in a way, something opposite); if I wanted to support the call for boycott, I would have written so.
Treating a comment here as endorsing or refuting the entire thread leading up to it is not going to help a nuanced discussion.
Your sentiment is that this is stack overflow c/p style business development. I understand this as: You receive instructions from a third party entity and carry them out verbatim. An because that to use a LLM that is anti-curiosity.
Let's delve into that, shall we?
1. Following instructions verbatim is as old as instructions. You could apply the same sentiment to mentorship, books, and well, Q/A systems. Just to inspire some reflection: Do you think good chefs ever use recipes or is that only bad chefs? It is quite well established that following instructions is key to learning.
2. You say that it is equivalent to follow instructions from an LLM to following instructions from SO - I think this misses a key feature of LLMs: The ability to index them. You can tell them they are care about business development in a narrow sense, to what it is index all future responses. This is realtime interactive and does probe behavior like changing what you index your instructions for, which indeed is the core of curiosity.
Based on this I hold on to my previous statement as a response yo your comment:
> Curiosity is about not being categorical - "It's Stack Overflow copy-pasting MkII." is extremely categorical and thus, anti-curiosity.
I do find that your line of thought is narrow and dismissed the elements to be curious about regarding LLMs.