Comment by crazygringo
12 hours ago
> when it says "most of the time", or "commonly", or "always", how do you know that's accurate?
Do you get those words a lot? If you're learning ray-tracing, it's math and code that either works or doesn't. There isn't a lot of "most of the time"?
Same with learning history. Events happened or they didn't. Economies grew at certain rates. Something that is factually "most of the time" is generally expressed as a frequency based on data.
So are you just verifying/factchecking everything it tells you? How is that a good learning experience? And if you don't, you are learning made up stuff, so not great either.
It's a good tool to learn stuff, I'm not trying to argue that, but one has to be fully aware of its shortcomings and put in extra work. With actual tutorials or books you have at least some level of trust.
> Something that is factually "most of the time" is generally expressed as a frequency based on data.
that is exactly my point. This is purely anecdotal, but LLMs keep pretenting there is data like that, so they use those words
I'm not encountering that in the types of stuff I'm learning about. Maybe it's subject-dependent.