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Isn’t all that something you could use books for, with the advantage of not getting your brain accustomed to quick and easy doses of dopamine?
What if the are certain chapters you don't understand? Can you ask the book to clarify?
What if the author's writing style puts you to sleep? You love the subject matter but cant get through the way the material is presented.
Let's be fair. You can ask online or search for answers. You can buy or borrow a different book. But then your progress is stalled while you wait for a response or the library to open.
You can still do all these things. What's wrong with having another tool to supplement? Do we raise our noses at YouTube tutorials and lectures and audiobooks the same way?
Sometimes, going “full speed” isn’t the answer either. Sometimes people need to sleep on it, and come back later.
This is what I meant with not getting a “quick dose of dopamine”.
Our brains are not designed for that. Even if you only use AI to “learn”, the massive influx of information would condition the human brain for input speed, not reflection, which incidentally is the most important part of learning anything.