Comment by llbeansandrice
5 hours ago
You’ve made the same mistake that this thread is talking about.
It’s not about whether the abstraction is human or not, it’s the level of abstraction you can operate at. Using hand tools vs power tools as a bad analogy: you can use either and still become a good carpenter. If you have someone build your cabinets for you that’s a totally different level of abstraction and you don’t actually have any carpentry skills or knowledge.
> You’ve made the same mistake that this thread is talking about.
I'm not making a mistake, you're confusing abstract "abstractions" with concrete humans. Some humans aren't much into abstractions but that doesn't make them less human. LLMs manipulate human-created abstractions, similar to other software, but that doesn't make them human at all.
> Using hand tools vs power tools as a bad analogy
You're confused about my analogy too, here's what I said: "a human digging trenches isn't a tool but a tractor-trencher is, even if autonomous". Robotic, autonomous tractor-trenchers do manipulate abstractions and dig trenches but that doesn't make them human.