> Use your favorite LLM as a Socratic advisor

Can you give an example of what you mean by this?

You read the book and have the llm ask you questions to help deepen your understanding, e.g.

Or you dont read the book at all and ask the llm to give you the salient points?

Socratic method usually refers to a questioning process, which is what the poster above is getting at in their terminology. Imo

teg4n_ 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And cross your fingers it didn’t make them up?

Yes. If it can get me through 10 books in the same time it takes you to get through 1 I am fine with an extra 1% error rate or whatever.

	▲	jdiff 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If I spend an afternoon on CliffNotes, I haven't read a hundred books in a day. This isn't one weird trick to accelerate your reading, it's entirely missing the point. If any book could be summarized in a few points, there would be no point to writing anything more than a BuzzFeed listicle.