k310 12 hours ago

Speaking of RTFM,

I visited my daughter's place and the new equipment there was a puzzler, with only little hard to see and not so intuitive icons to indicate different trays. So I downloaded all the pertinent manuals and figured out which tray does what.

Mine is simpler, older, and (I thought) obvious.

Cameras come with both a manual and "get started guide", the latter more like a checklist, a popular topic today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42495262

xbmcuser 14 hours ago

Reading through that post comments makes you realise human knowledge is very siloed and many smart people will be dumb about stuff outside their knowledge. This is the main reason I feel LLM will be huge change once people start realising how to use it properly. Human might be smarter but LLM has access to a lot more knowledge and could find uses of a knowledge from 1 field to another which human would never think to use.

  • k310 13 hours ago

    What you are saying is a large part of creativity. Well, that's an open question.

  • zahlman 14 hours ago

    >[an] LLM ... could find uses of a knowledge from 1 field [in] another

    Any particularly interesting examples?