The problem is - to paraphrase Bertrand Russell - people who read Plato don’t write Prompts and people who write Prompts don’t read Plato.
Without a new humanistic discipline that merges engineering and philosophy, we will be left with fewer and fewer people who know how to read deeply and the few that are left will not have the taste for AI systems and their architecture - the lack of sensibility goes both ways.
LLMs are living off the moral and intellectual capital of a pre-AI world, just like Nietzsche said secular liberals live off Christianity. What happens when the inheritance runs out?
Using LLMs well — knowing when to trust them, how to interrogate their outputs, what questions are worth asking — depends on capacities that are pre-LLM in o…
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