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Interacting with a computer in natural language is much more human than typing in special codes and punctuation.


So telling someone to make a table for you is more human than making it yourself, because you're using natural language instead of saws and hand planes?


I would say yes, conversing between two humans, maybe even collaborating, is more human than a solitary human using inanimate objects.


Basket weaving is more human than conversation. Language is entry level artificial man.


Even if the table collapses down badly instead of doing a proper one with a good set of tools?


But the extension works, not "collapses down badly."


I can't know how To hear anymore about tables


Have you seen me work?


Yes, I build furniture for my wife’s designs. Without her my furniture wouldn’t exist. I’m the LLM in this case, capable of building things but not furniture design.


> telling someone to make a table for you is more human than making it yourself

That's a bad comparison. You have to compare crafting a table manually to doing it via CNC.


Commissioning a craftsman you respect to make custom furniture to your taste and specifications sounds human enough to me.


The human world is full of special codes and obscure gestures that only have meaning if provided in the right sequence to the right people. Computer programming being documented and formalized makes it more accessible than many social circles.


Imagine writing this comment on 2013 Hacker News with a straight face.




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