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Originally Posted by amirthfultehrani
(...)Such unanswered questions frequently necessitates reaching for external tools - be it search engines or, increasingly, Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT - to bring the reader (me) to deeper comprehension.
Think extracting the logical structure from an argument in Spinoza's Ethics or identifying experimental findings from a highly technical paper in Science magazine -- sure, one can meticulously re-read, cross-reference, and manually outline these works, to eventually get to the "answers," but an LLM offers that which traditional tools cannot provide: an immediate, context-aware synthesis, one that drastically reduces the cognitive overhead and time spent in the pursuit of genuine understanding; after all, effort saved is focus gained.(...)
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What exactly is the benefit for you? Having an LLM write a synopsis in easy to understand language for you is the the same as reading the plot of a novel on wikipedia and thinking that this will replace reading a novel or watching a movie. To understand these concepts, you need to figure them out yourself, having an LLM do the work for you is defeating the purpose. This is a sure way to mess up your critical thinking skills.