> The Manufacturing Control Plan (MCP) tool is a crucial element in ensuring product quality and process control within manufacturing environments
Nice touches: follow-up questions, structured themes, and an “explain like I’m five” option (would love a slider for that).
Rough edges with saving and sources, but overall a solid entry point for learning any topic.
> We don’t take a cut — you keep 100% of what you earn through your Amazon Associates account.
But, it's AI so: Alice sends Bob to SweepIQ, Bob uses a bunch of GPUs to learn about making bagels, Bob buys a deep fryer from Amazon. How did SweepIQ pay for those GPUs?
any non-referral users, SweepIQ still keeps their amazon profit (and uses that to pay for the gpu's)
+ in future they might add another monetization, so perhaps Bob will pay $15/mo for SweepIQ Premium
I don't think this has the kind of well-paced progression of concepts that you'd want for learning anything efficiently.
The answers also have the same vague noncommittal tone that LLMs often have, but I don't know if there's much that can be done about that.
vouaobrasil•8mo ago
I think it's better to learn for the love of it, and keep the automation of learning to a minimum. I understand the desire to make learning faster in the short term, but I can't help thinking that in the long-term it leads to imbuing learning with an atmosphere of necessity and the stripping of beauty from the holistic experience of learning as wonderful discovery. No thanks.
lgas•8mo ago
vouaobrasil•8mo ago
diggan•8mo ago
Just because sometimes you just want a 30 second break down on how to boil pasta, or whatever, doesn't mean we're becoming "optimizing machines", just that the context matters. Sometimes I don't want to or need to know the "fundamentals of why water boils", I just need to know enough in order to complete some other thing.
> it's time to modify one's life so that it no longer matters
It sounds like you have 100% control of your own life, which might be great and all, but it isn't very realistic for most humans on the planet. Time is limited, and what we spend our time on is a choice. I too probably spend too much time learning about stuff I cannot really apply, because I like learning, but sometimes you're faced with something, you need to make a choice within N minutes/hours/days, and spending 1 month researching the topic before making a choice just isn't feasible.
vouaobrasil•8mo ago
If I want a 30-second breakdown of how to boil pasta, I'll look on the back of the box.
> Sometimes I don't want to or need to know the "fundamentals of why water boils", I just need to know enough in order to complete some other thing.
False dichotomoy, because even if I want to quickly know how to do something, I don't need AI, nor do I need to research everything either.
> Time is limited, and what we spend our time on is a choice
That's fine, and I agree. But that doesn't mean we need to go to the level of AI to learn something, and I'd argue it's even harmful in the long run as even a study by Microsoft [1] shows that AI makes people stupider, so not really learning at all.
[1] https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/10/1752233/microsoft-study-...
diggan•8mo ago
Yeah, but then you're in a foreign country or whatever, you understand that was just an example right? To illustrate something... Have some imagination.
> False dichotomoy, because even if I want to quickly know how to do something, I don't need AI, nor do I need to research everything either.
Right, I'm not claiming it's impossible to "learn X quickly without AI", but I would make the claim that I can learn X faster with AI, than without. YMMV and all that.
> But that doesn't mean we need to go to the level of AI to learn something
I don't have to use Wikipedia or the Internet instead of going to my local library, but if I'm in a rush, and need something quickly, I probably prefer those two options rather than the last.
> as even a study by Microsoft [1] shows that AI makes people stupider, so not really learning at all.
That study says no such thing, and the amount of people mislead by that paper is kind of shocking to me. If you're curious what the paper actually says, feel free to read the actual paper instead of a "YouTube AI thought-leader" summarization of it, or whatever you got the whole "AI makes people stupider" from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
vouaobrasil•8mo ago
> Yeah, but then you're in a foreign country or whatever, you understand that was just an example right? To illustrate something... Have some imagination.
I haven't seen a convincing example yet.
> Right, I'm not claiming it's impossible to "learn X quickly without AI", but I would make the claim that I can learn X faster with AI, than without. YMMV and all that.
Again, I wonder if that's true. Because skim-learning, IMO, does not lead to much real learning in the long run. Like I knew a guy in grad school who did that, and could come up with answers faster at first. But after a couple weeks, he had a very sketchy knowledge of the subject and had to keep looking things up whereas people who were more systematic at learning could answer questions without any reference at all.
I'm not saying skim-learning is bad, sometimes it is necessary but in general, AI takes it too far for the average person and it will most likely lead to mental degradation.
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Jarwain•8mo ago
Another example, your friend's band's guitarist got sick and you've got a week to learn a full set's worth of music
Generally I find some urgency to be a nice motivator