This is a genuinely interesting perspective that I think nails my original point and fear of AI being used as “spark notes” for complex topics. To me, LLMs are like a calculator for language, except the math is always changing (if that makes sense), and I’m not sure I like where that’s heading as the first cohorts of AI tutored kids learn from these kinds of procedurally generated output rather than reading the original historical texts, or maybe it’s fine that not everyone reads Plato but more people at least have heard of his concepts? Idk philosophy is pretty far outside my expertise, maybe I should open a book
The allegory of the cave is pretty short, read it if you want!
The wild thing about it, and other allegories or poems like frost's "the road not taken" , is that it can mean different things to a person depending on where they are in life because those experiences will lead to different interpretations of the poem.
A key concept in journalism is to focus on the source material as beat you can. Cliff notes are helpful, but one misses Details that they wouldn't have missed if they read the whole thing.
Whether those details Matter depends on what the thing Is.
But yeah, thinking about it this way kinda scares me too, and can lead some people down weird roads where their map can diverge further and further from reality
