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I thought I got a pretty good response- not o1: https://chatgpt.com/share/67db7ea5-f770-800e-bd6f-67945f584250 https://chatgpt.com/share/67db7ea5-f770-800e-bd6f

by awongh 2y ago

I thought I got a pretty good response- not o1: https://chatgpt.com/share/67db7ea5-f770-800e-bd6f-67945f584250 https://chatgpt.com/share/67db7ea5-f770-800e-bd6f-67945f5842... Maybe you meant that it immediately went to USA specific, but you can always change your question to clarify. Basically, if I'm unfamiliar with the topic this gives me a solid basis to ask begin to ask follow-up questions that use the terminology of the field, or start to find out what is regarded as important. I actually find it quite easy to go deep into a topic in a way that would be impossible in wikipedia, simply because if the topic becomes too dense for me it's hard to navigate your way back out- the wiki article begins to read like gibberish. With an LLM you can simply ask it to rephrase or clarify something.

ants_everywhere 2y ago
Yeah I mean that it went USA specific and also time specific. If you know enough to ask clarification that's great. But the problem with research is I don't know what I don't know, so when it puts me in a very small part of the problem space it's hard for me to see how little knowledge I've gained. In this example, I wouldn't personally consider any of these theories for why suburbs exist. They're all important reasons for the expansion of US suburbs during one time period. But that doesn't answer the question of why, for example, there aren't forces that pin everyone either to an urban or rural existence without suburbs. The answer to that question would involve rather different concepts than the answer it gave IMO.