When notebookLM was new, it was interesting to listen to the podcasts. Then the novelty wore off, and I wanted something where I can interact with the podcasters but it was janky as hell.

My current “audio-learning” hack is ChatGPT Live which has become shockingly good after being awful compared to Claude Voice (Let’s not even talk about Gemini voice which is still bad).

I go on a walk and dump a paper or article link in the chat, and ask chatGPT Live to walk me through the content in small nuggets, so I can discuss them interactively. For deeper topics I have it quiz me Socratic style so I’m not just passively listening, and actually thinking through problems or ideas.

▲ citiguy 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Oh wow, this is a great idea. Can I ask what your prompt looks like?

▲ d4rkp4ttern 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Me:

    Ok so I'm going on a walk. I'll dump a link to a Hacker News   
    discussion about an article. 
    You have to read the article and the discussion and walk me thru   
    all the interesting details, nugget by nugget, and move on when 
    I'm ready for the next piece.

ChatGPT Live:

    ok, Great show me the link, I'm waiting.

(I paste the link)

Me:

    Ok I pasted it. Now go.

====

For the Socratic quiz I say:

    I want to understand this more deeply. So instead of you just telling me
    everything, lay out the problem and a question for me to think about, and 
    I'll try to answer. Even if I answer wrong, you should resist giving me the
    answer, and instead keep digging with more questions, so that I eventually 
    arrive at the answer myself.

I also have a Socratic quiz skill that I wrote for using in Claude Code or Codex to understand implementations/architecture etc:

https://pchalasani.github.io/claude-code-tools/plugins-detai...

	▲	blitzar 28 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> You have to read the article Nahh - pile in based on the title and what you assume the contents might be.
	▲	mandeepj 43 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		To each their own, but for me - that'd be a heavy cognitive load. I ask Claude or ChatGPT to summarize HN comments and the article and provide any takeaways or wisdom nuggets. That's it.
	▲	singhkays an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		thanks for sharing! saving this to refer back to this

▲ lardosaurusrex 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>hack

>podcast slop

>letting the llm do it for you

there is a very good reason microsoft's ceo got repeatedly dunked on and it was because he literally couldn't stop babbling incoherently about having AI listen to things for him

i cannot imagine just sucking the joy out of life like this.

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estearum an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This may come as a surprise, but some people have to ingest large amounts of information for reasons other than producing joy.

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doctorpangloss 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

what do you think will come of the people who have to ingest large amounts of information for reasons other than producing joy, if the AI is ingesting large amounts of information for them?

and anyway... the commenter is doing this for joy. so who, really, are you even talking about?

why be snarky? i agree, your AI is going to make the tedium in your job easier.

	▲	estearum 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Probably nothing good, but that's not the complaint being leveled! > and anyway... the commenter is doing this for joy. so who, really, are you even talking about? I don't see evidence of that?

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pmarreck 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

you must be this guy

https://x.com/peregrinepulp/status/2077839461749338560?s=46&...

▲ pmarreck an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The limit of these things being at least partially due to the users’ imagination explains at least some of the terrible criticisms I see out there which do not stand up to scrutiny. Perfect example just now in the wild: https://x.com/peregrinepulp/status/2077839461749338560?s=46&...

anyway, your idea is sweet, likely because you are smart