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I think this is a great post. It will ruffle some feathers and people will feel attacked, but I think the core idea is exactly right: if we are communicating and the goal is the exchange of information, use your incredible language faculty to communicate with me. To do otherwise is a disrespect to me and it indicates that you value the act of showing me your brilliant idea (in your estimation) more than you value taking the effort to actually communicate the idea to me. You are essentially an "ideas guy". I know that an LLM is a yes-man, and that a yes-man and an "ideas guy" is a combination that produces confident mistakes. If you can't be bothered to communicate your idea, or the essence of your idea, in your own words, please keep it to yourself until you've put in that effort.


Maybe I worded this more harshly than I meant. I value anybody who tries to communicate with me and I don't mean to try to discourage people from having ideas or communicating them to me, but - writing is thinking, the act of trying to actually use your language and your reasoning will improve your idea. How many times have I thought I had a good idea, then in the process of writing it out, I realize its flaws (many times)? If you pass this process off to an LLM, you skip a key step, and you leave it to me the receiver to do this work for you.




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