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  • First off, I’m pursuing PhD, not MD, so you won’t be my patient. I’m a microbiologist.

    Second, as I thought I very clearly articulated, I do not offload thinking to LLM nor I ask it to provide me with all the answers. I follow original sources, and if you’ve ever followed scientific literature beyond student handbooks, you know that authors tend to omit things they consider obvious, leaving the reader with a gap of crucial knowledge that they don’t know how to close. This happens to the best of scientists, and it can take months to resolve, or it may never be solved at all, especially if the original author has already retired or passed away, or doesn’t answer on known communication channels.

    Doing it the old-fashioned way means finding one of like five people in the world who also know the answer, and hope they’ll respond (they may very much not), or spend months studying obscure prerequisite materials, likely to still end up with a dead end. With the deadline pressure and KPIs, this often means abandoning an immediate direction of work altogether, not a cozy library session.

    LLMs, on the other hand, are unrivaled at contextual search and can obtain essential data from obscure sources in a matter of seconds. They are also great at explaining the jargon, allowing researchers and students in narrow fields to focus on what matters instead of getting another major on the side simply to understand the wording around an otherwise trivial concept.

    All that, so brains would be busy with something other than guessing. You know, the actual problems to solve.







  • I’m currently pursuing a PhD and working on a level where it’s hard to find an expert, and volumes of new information that don’t allow me to do so for any single minor inquiry.

    This is the step at which the “teacher”, be it scientific supervisor or a prof on the subject, might very much not know the answer. LLMs, however, have access to a large corpus of data that allows to untangle this mess in a quick and efficient way.

    Any understanding I get from the LLM’s explanation I verify against the academic books I follow and practical runs. Only when I’m certain I grasped it right, I put it into my work. And LLM was indeed very wrong on one occasion, and slightly inconsistent on some more.









  • I’m so tired of people pretending everyone but their family and friends is an evil imbecile and plague to humanity.

    Isolation does this to people. We start looking for simple answers, and without getting living breathing counterexamples, it’s easy to turn an outside “mob” into a scapegoat.

    People in most other circles are just like you. They have their dreams, concerns, and they act by what they consider to be good faith. They are someone you can understand, befriend, make part of the community or maybe - just maybe - start a family with.

    People are good. Pretty much all of them. They may differ in what they mean by it, but fundamentally, they live their days trying to be a better version of themselves, to make the world. a better place - or simply to get through another day. This happens too.

    Learning to love people, to embrace them goes a long way to building a sustainable and healthy community - and to fixing a lot of the mental struggles of today.

    Hold on to each other. Learn to forgive, and to look at things from another person’s perspective. For most people are no enemies, but someone you can start something beautiful with.