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Currently it has about 20,000 concepts on a range of topics but that's just what I generated so far, it should work with more obscure topics in the future.\n\nI love learning about random topics where I don't have a good background in like history or linguistics, but it's hard to figure out what topics there (you don't know what you don't know) are in certain fields and what they are even about",{"problem":46,"audience":52,"pricing":56,"motivation":57,"time_to_build":56,"stack":61,"openness":66,"stage":67,"team_size":66},{"value":47,"source":48,"evidence":49},"Hard to know what topics exist in unfamiliar fields and what they are about","maker",[50],{"id":51},"post",{"value":53,"source":48,"evidence":54},"People learning about unfamiliar topics",[55],{"id":51},null,{"value":58,"source":48,"evidence":59},"Wanted high-level overviews of random topics they didn't know about",[60],{"id":51},[62],{"value":63,"source":48,"evidence":64},"GPT",[65],{"id":51},"unknown","launched",{"praise":69,"objections":85,"requests":115,"questions":127,"alternatives":135},[70],{"value":71,"source":72,"evidence":73},"Useful for learning unfamiliar topics and seeing what to explore","commenter",[74,78,81],{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},"35395448","Mamadou_H","Valid point, however, I personally believe that the questions generated hold greater significance as they provide direction in terms of what to explore in a particular subject…",{"id":79,"by":76,"text":80},"35395476","this particular use of LLM could prove helpful in the sense that it shows you what to look for in a given subject matter. The generated answer can easily be verified.",{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"35403056","MrLaheyyy","This is freaking sick! Really cool use of ai to democratize higher level education.",[86,101,108],{"value":87,"source":72,"evidence":88},"Generated content can't be trusted without verification",[89,93,97],{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"35394704","amelius","Sounds like you reinvented Wikipedia's \"Simple English\" pages, but in a way that can't be trusted very much.",{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"35395172","humanistbot","If you don't have any background in a topic, then how do you know it is getting it right? You don't know enough to know if you can trust any given response. Either you have to…",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"35395093","thenberlin","Yeah, no kidding. This is what LLMs are not meant for 101 -- it'll get a lot right, a solid amount of the time (spare me the anecdotes), but the idea that someone who doesn't…",{"value":102,"source":72,"evidence":103},"Recommending LLMs as a knowledge source is a bad use",[104],{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"35394864","jszymborski","Big agree. It feels wrong to dissuade someone from building something, this is likely an exercise in creativity, but I have to say this goes on my \"Bad Use of LLMs\" list. Sure,…",{"value":109,"source":72,"evidence":110},"Sudoku explanation looked inaccurate",[111],{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"35395167","empdee","First page I clicked was the Computer Science...Sudoku page. 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