Personally I’ve found the way to use it is to get it to do the work of processing documents I could never be bothered to process myself, and to transform large volumes of information into an indexed and cross referenced dynamic index. It does both of these things well, because that’s what language models are good at.

The end result is that I am more informed. The downside is that I spend less time going off into the weeds, which does mean picking up less esoteric information.

It’s also more mentally exhausting to have to be constantly second guessing your sources of information.

But I’ve found well prompted LLMs to be a force multiplier if used in the background to do the things you previously just didn’t bother doing at all.

It's hilarious how badly you've misread this situation.

I'm in the camp of people who see pseudo intellectual bullshit bandied about all day on the internet and have since it all began.

"Seeking higher cognition" is meaningless word fluff and anyone who feels the need to advertise and ensure others are aware of their intelligence rank, which is of course ABOVE THEM.

seeking higher cognition is the type of phrase that makes my amigdyla fire and engage my primal prey response because this shit is either a cult or a scam and we're the marks.

AI doesn't mean anything, AI is a lot of things to a lot of people but really it's software. Software that a lot of people have bet very very heavily on, but that doesn't seem to really be finding a market to the scale warranted by the insane resources that have been allocated and are being used every day. The math there doesn't work, huge amounts of land, power, water, high end computers, 247365, and you sell the world's new MS paint.

Anyway fuck you

There is yes, AI doesn't seem to be a solution to that.