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> Afterwards I don't feel like I know something, I feel like I've got a faster broad idea of what facts might exist and where to look for them, a good set of things to investigate, etc.

Can you cite a specific example where this happened for you? I'm interested in how you think you went from "broad idea" to building actual knowledge.

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Sure. I wanted to tile my bathroom, from chatgpt i learned about laser levels, ledger boards, and levelling spacers (id only seen those cross corner ones before).

FWIW that seems like low stakes compared to what I see other people using LLMs for (e.g medical advice).

I guess. I also used it to check the side effects of coming off prednisolone, and it gave me some areas to look at. I've used it a bunch to check out things around kidney transplants and everything ive verified has been correct.

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