Reading with a computer assistant (an LLM) to answer questions, summarize dense paragraphs, and expand on ideas has been one of the ways I leveled up at reading over the back half of the year.
You don’t have to upload any book into the system. The Great Cosmic Mind is smarter than most of the books you could jam into the context window. Just start asking questions. The core intuition is simply that you should be asking more questions. And now you have someone/something to ask!
— Tyler Cowen, How to read a book using o1
Extremely true from @tylercowen. Not just for books, but for almost everything. Music, movies, Netflix documentaries, essays, even Twitter threads, codebases and strategy docs, PRDs, the marginal benefit to asking more questions has increased dramatically even as the cost fell.
As ever, trust but verify you’re not incorporating an AI hallucination into your human brain.
