If the LLMs can lower the friction I guess everybody will be more likely to learn things. Also, there is no “big mistery” in most fields, you just need a structured idea of a certain amount of concepts.
This is not the case. Maybe your memory capacity is naturally on the upper side of the human range (e.g., 9 pieces rather than 4) as well as IQ, which makes learning for you seem doable. The fact is, most people, no matter how hard they try, are probably incapable of learning calculus, let alone tensor algebra or something even more abstract or complex, such as the math that is needed even to begin to approach string theory. Or, something that requires keeping simultaneous track of many moving pieces. For example, it’s considered that no human can properly understand how the brain works: it requires simultaneously holding in one’s head dozens or hundreds of moving pieces. AI can do this, but a human can’t.
I saw this mistake made by David Deutsch: because he himself is a genius and can relatively easily understand anything that any other human can write, he conjectured that the “human understanding has universal reach”. Stephen Wolfram, another genius, concurred.
This is why I don’t place much confidence in projections about how the population will be affected by TAI from people like Sam Altman either. You have to consider they are very likely to be completely out of touch with the average person and so have absolutely terrible intuitions about how they respond to anything, let alone forecasting long term implications for them stemming from TAI. If you get some normal people together and make sure they take the proposition of TAI and everything it entails seriously, (such as widespread joblessness), I suspect you would encounter a lot more fear/apprehension around the kind of behaviours and ways of living that is going to produce.
This is not the case. Maybe your memory capacity is naturally on the upper side of the human range (e.g., 9 pieces rather than 4) as well as IQ, which makes learning for you seem doable. The fact is, most people, no matter how hard they try, are probably incapable of learning calculus, let alone tensor algebra or something even more abstract or complex, such as the math that is needed even to begin to approach string theory. Or, something that requires keeping simultaneous track of many moving pieces. For example, it’s considered that no human can properly understand how the brain works: it requires simultaneously holding in one’s head dozens or hundreds of moving pieces. AI can do this, but a human can’t.
I saw this mistake made by David Deutsch: because he himself is a genius and can relatively easily understand anything that any other human can write, he conjectured that the “human understanding has universal reach”. Stephen Wolfram, another genius, concurred.
This is why I don’t place much confidence in projections about how the population will be affected by TAI from people like Sam Altman either. You have to consider they are very likely to be completely out of touch with the average person and so have absolutely terrible intuitions about how they respond to anything, let alone forecasting long term implications for them stemming from TAI. If you get some normal people together and make sure they take the proposition of TAI and everything it entails seriously, (such as widespread joblessness), I suspect you would encounter a lot more fear/apprehension around the kind of behaviours and ways of living that is going to produce.