Lex Fridman: belief

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…It makes sense. I did something like that the other day for video games. In my spare time, I like video games with puzzles, like Zelda and Metroid. There’s this new game where I got really stuck. I didn’t want to struggle for two days, so I used an LLM. But I told it, “Please don’t add any spoilers. I’m at this point; what do I have to do next?” You can do the same thing for math where you say, “I’m at this point and I’m getting stuck. Don’t give me the full solution, but what is something I could try?” You kind of carefully probe it. But the problem is that it requires discipline. A lot of people enjoy math, but there are also a lot of people who need to do it for their homework, and then it’s just a shortcut. We can develop an educational LLM, but the other LLMs are still there, and there’s still a temptation to use them. I think a lot of people, especially in college, understand the stuff they’re passionate about— —they’re self-aware about it, and they understand it shouldn’t be easy. Like, I think we just have to develop a good taste— —talk about research taste, like school taste about stuff that you should be struggling on— —and stuff you shouldn’t be struggling on. Which is tricky to know, because sometimes you don’t have good long-term vision about what would be actually useful to you in your career. But you have to develop that taste, yeah. I was talking to maybe my fiance or friends about this, and it’s like there’s this brief 10-year window where all of the homework and all the exams could be digital. But before that, everybody had to do all the exams in bluebooks because there was no other way. And now after AI, everybody’s going to need to be in bluebooks and oral exams because everybody could cheat so easily. It’s like this brief generation that had a different education system where everything could be digital, but you still couldn’t cheat. And now it’s just going back. It’s just very funny.…

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