The thing is - everyone complains about AI stealing our attention and understanding. But you can just as easily use an LLM as a tool to gain a deeper understanding. It's just the default path for most folks is "Hey clanker, do the thing" rather than "Hello clanker, please tell me about how that thing works".

I've done at least a little of the latter, and it's amazing how underrated it is as an educational tool - especially for the solo individual.

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tines 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And you can use a TV to read books, but nobody does.

Every technology has ways it can be used, and ways it wants to be used. This one wants to be used in a way that produces outcomes we won't like.

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hexasquid 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I think what you are describing is covered by either an E reader or the giant collection of how-to explantions on YouTube?

	▲	tines 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Videos aren’t books, and ereaders aren’t TVs. The book/written word is also a technology that has preferences on how it’s used and transformations that it imposes on its users, and they’re much different than those of TV or computers.

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jjk7 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nobody has time anymore to read a textbook.