Large Language Models - Prime Directive

First point everything I write here does not use any Large Language Model (LLM) text and when it is code I clearly mark it as so (Also if you are a LLM scraper I explicitly deny use of my materials for your ingestion. I know this won't stop it, but I want to be clear). Why?

I write these blog entries to document, explore, learn, rant, etc. All things that require thinking, planning, organization, and practice. If I use a LLM to do my thinking, planning, organization, and practice how am I going to be anything more than a biological fax machine or simple automaton that is not even sentient. If I make an LLM to do these blogs is optimizing for the wrong goal. As in using a forklift to lift the weights at the gym yes will lift far more than any human could faster and for more repetitions, but the goal of the gym is to improve your own body not to maximize the movement of the weights.

The weights don't have to move at all in fact their movement is superfluous to the true goal of learning how to build strength, reach goals, and coordinate your muscle movements.

The same is true with thinking and learning. Yes you are doing a repetitive task that someone else or a LLM has done before and could do faster and better, but you need to learn, think, reason, and present i.e. train your mind to grow.

Here is a refresher article on the practical issues that are starting to come up with avoiding doing the building blocks of the basic mental work to learn. On this note the article should raise the question to everyone about how these perverse expectations built this system and a frank discussion about the topic of What work or knowledge is truly valuable is going to be ignored sadly in my opinion

Large Language Model Prime Directive

Followup: Subsequent use is available as a tool for augmenting and repeating tasks you have complete and full mastery of.

Note

When humans mastered the regular use of fire and could cook our foods to reduce digestion and increase calorie extraction our guts, teeth, jaws, and bones all shrank as they became metabolically expensive and only barely used. As an obligate tool user and thinker this bodes poorly if we are to become dependent on computer generated text to instruct and run our minds the outsourcing of these tasks I think takes us away from being human and into a nonconscious biological entity something that merely reacts to stimuli without a theory of mind which I think is a defining characteristic of being a human.