Resist Summary

The output of Large Language Models (“AI”) is an aid to learning extremely simple things, and it is an impediment to learning anything complex or creative. The nature of the output, of summary, is speed things along.

But the consequence is to avoid you having to build your own complex mental model of anything. I worry that without a complex model in one’s own mind, one may never notice complex relationships that are otherwise missed. A loss of attention to detail.

Getting an immediate answer can solve immediate problems, but if instead of a solution, you came upon a chain of reasoning, you might actually solve several future problems for yourself too. That chain of reasoning is the real learning. One of the advantages of intelligence is that its not context-free, just-in-time delivery. Good thinking builds o... See more