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You don't have to become an expert to ask a question and find an answer using existing methods such as the rest of the internet or traditional media such as boo

You don't have to become an expert to ask a question and find an answer using existing methods such as the rest of the internet or traditional media such as books. Books and summaries exist already of pretty much any topic you are mildly curious about. You can get a good understanding of any subject in the world in a week or so if you wish to.

lxgr 2y ago
> Books and summaries exist already of pretty much any topic you are mildly curious about. That's absolutely not the case for many questions I've had LLMs answer for me so far. Just as one example, I had one come up with a mathematical model for a specific retirement investment/taxation question I've had for years, and that is too niche to have any prior art publicly available. I've gotten as far as a spreadsheet with a vague approximation myself, with no way of validating my reasoning. I've asked an LLM to model the same thing, once symbolically and once numerically in Python, and to run the numbers for a few sample values, again symbolically and numerically. This I then compared to my own spreadsheet. Sure, I could have spent a few weeks more of studying finance textbooks or paid an accountant a few thousand dollars to do so, but it just wouldn't have been worth it to me. Big qualitative differences matter too sometimes. > You can get a good understanding of any subject in the world in a week or so if you wish to. Yes, but I don't have an infinite number of weeks in my life, nor an infinite number of motivated interns I can send out to search the web and sift through the results for me.