If the gap between how smart you think you are and how smart you actually are is big enough, it almost doesn't matter how smart you are anymore.

When a reasonably smart person gets way outside their lane and is sure they know better, they look really really stupid. More humble people more aware of the bounds of their knowledge and skill think to gather more information or lean on others' expertise.

I've had a related thought, broader and less insightful, that apparent or practical intelligence is actual intelligence divided by self-estimated intelligence.

Trump breaks things doing whatever lawless nonsense, but you can't do lawless nonsense to fix things because one of the broken things is people's acceptance of lawless nonsense.

I'd argue this is universal, not just Windows. Do one thing, do it well, or else it becomes a mess

Is this that free speech they promised?

That's interesting. I also use them as a software developer but it sounds like your experience is different than mine. Even with all the tools, results improve, but we're still kinda crossing our fingers, hoping for the best, and skeptically reviewing.

If you have proposals for solutions, I'd love to know. I want better results too. But so far in your replies, I'm only finding what you want it to do, not how an LLM can do that with an understanding of how LLMs work.

If it could do that, wouldn't it have gotten it right in the first place? I think we're circling around the problem here–LLMs don't "think", they probabilistically produce things that look like answers. It's a wonder that they're right as often as they are.

I've tried, and sort of? They really, really like to guess. And when I try to instruct one to stop if it doesn't have the information available, it will usually do as much as it can infer, even if it veers slightly off-task.

Trump is an idiot, but he has the fascist cunning: he knows how to pick out weak groups that stronger people are afraid to defend. he is doing that right now. we can either explain how they'd need to be different to earn fuller and louder protection, or we can just defend them

The man cannot handle being corrected or contradicted. At this point, it's not about the election, it's about being unquestionable.

In my line of work, it makes good, experienced workers better but inexperienced and thoughtless workers worse. I imagine that's true of many jobs.

It is important to remember that this fight is between those for the rule of law, and those against rule of law. Not liberal vs. conservative, or left vs right. Right now, we have to dispense with our reflexive tribalism.