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nobody | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 why would your presence & interest annoy anyone, will?

a lot of people, but i would say especially physicists, love teaching & explaining & musing aloud about physics 

like asking a star wars fan about star wars
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nobody | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 & if you were worried about taking too much time .. like if hella stoked on physics besides a phone-a-friend thing, why not hire a cool tutor!
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nobody | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 a lot of university professors & TAs, especially in the summer, would be so down
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jb55 | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 pay money to get a worse experience? The breadth of questions you can ask an LLM is way more than an individual studying a small slice of physics.

I saw this in my own domain of expertise. chatgpt knows way more coding than me, and ive been doing this for 26 years.

I can ask an ai for hours on end to compare different aspects of different theories. There is lots to mine, and it’s easier to query than a human. It’s like a natural language interface to wikipedia. No human on earth is a walking talking wikipedia, chatgpt is the closest thing to it.
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nobody | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 re: preferences & learning styles

if money was out of the equation, & ai for hours at any hour is your preferred learning method ~> bless. it is a wonderful thing to know how you learn best. 

for my part, like if this was my dream, i think it would be cool if you had a coding tutor, too. 

but that, to me, is about a much more broad philosophy of learning thing. 

like for sure can ai be a good supplement & resource, in addition to. but the sole thing? learning how to ride a bike? learn how to scuba dive? surf? catch a baseball? sing? play an instrument? read? could ai replace a parent?

do we ever achieve so much single domain expertise in anything that no human can teach or show us a damn thing? if you were teaching a coding class to high school students.. would some of them not be able to teach or show you something too? 

sure there is asking physics questions
but what about learning to think like a physicist? learning to think like a tennis player? the type of learning that is applicable across domains. like oh, i can think like a physicist to write this poem? i can think like a scuba diver to clean my room? idk. maybe that's far far outside of what you plan on using physics for & again, you know best when it comes to you & what you want. 🫂💜 hope you are enjoying learning about physics!