AI can point you in interesting directions, but if it is your first and only source, and you trust it to combine all these other sources together, you are shorting yourself. It does not do as well as you think it does, at combining ideas, identifying edge cases or real understanding. What it is teaching you may be or may not be, broadly accurate. It is a starting place, which, as I interpreted the OP, was their primary and often only, source.

The act of forming hypothesis, and researching to understand is part of learning. If all your learning comes from reading tailored answers to specific questions, you miss out on exposure to other thoughts, that you would bump into by researching.

I’ve used AI to try to research things, and EVERY time, on deeper inspection of an idea, some of the information it shared ranged from false to technically true, but not … really right.

It is, at best, like a personal TA; someone who you go to the office hours of, when you are stumped on a thing you’ve learned and need the idea explained differently, or you have no idea where to start, and you need a point in the right direction. Helpful, but you would never use that person to write your research.

You are so right about how important the process of thinking and learning is, and that is where AI fails.

I am not a teacher, but a couple weeks ago, I was a guest speaker in a high school IT class. I told them all about how critical it is to be an effective communicator by documenting their steps in their tickets in a way that others can follow, and told them, straight up, that communication is a skill. If you can’t communicate, I will not hire you. Told them I have actively declined to hire or promote because they don’t communicate effectively.

I am not sure how to do something similar with, say, an English class, but I wonder if you could figure out how to expose them to the future professional repercussions of not understanding the topic deeply. I think it hit differently when the repercussion wasn’t just that their instructor would be unhappy.

Juliette Mariller - Daughter of the Forrest

It is the first book in a historical fantasy series that follows a an Irish family through several generations.

It is loosely based on an old fairy tale where a witch turns 6 brothers into swans and their sister is set to an impossible task to free them.

The writing style takes a little time to get into, IMO, but once you do, I think it is un-put-down-able.

The rest of the series is also great, mixed gender protagonists in the other books.

Oh holey moley. That is a big windmill! I need like… a rooftop windmill, or… a couple rooftop windmills.

I am super interested in wind, but not sure if my house gets enough. My city is pretty windy in some areas, but I don’t often get a ton.

Do you have them yourself?

Yep, the ‘payoff time’ on mine is long, but I am betting they last much longer than that, and that energy prices won’t scale normally. I really want sodium ion batteries to work out, but they are sounding less promising.

We have a big natural gas shortage looming here, and most homes are heated with it. Such an obvious thing to be trying to prepare for, sure heat pumps won’t heat all winter here, but… If I can generate heat using my free electricity 2 or 3 of the months needing heat a year, that is a permanent discount, that only gets better as costs go crazy. People around me don’t really seem to be thinking this way.

I am investing in ways to make my future costs lower. For example, I have solar on my house. It covers about half of my bill, and will for the foreseeable future. I am looking into additions to solar, as I live in Alaska, and need to figure out winter times.

I am looking into heat pumps, they aren’t great for dead of winter, but they might eliminate shoulder season heat costs.

We buy the best quality, and locally produced food and goods we can, to help support our health and our community resilience.

Buy once, cry once, whenever we can, because replacement of stuff will be harder.

We live beneath our means, and take the money we save being boring and pay off debt, so that we truly own what is ours, because someday, paying a mortgage or for a vehicle, might be too difficult.

Practice using what you have, instead of buying stuff to solve your problem. Ingenuity is something that can be learned and practiced, but isn’t something that comes naturally to people.

Learn to make stuff, or about your surroundings. If you live in a place you can forage, learn about what you can eat in your area to supplement what you have to buy.

Plan to be a poor person, because that is a situation that is likely, and that you can survive.

Most people will not make it, if we wind up in a situation where you are dependent on what you plant, and goods you stock up on. That stuff is just prolonging the inevitable. Total independence is just not a thing most people are prepared for mentally, or have the skills to pull off. So, prepare for a future where luxuries are limited, material goods are in short supply, and you have to figure out how to make do with what you have.

I read the other day about a protocol called Gemini.

https://geminiprotocol.net/

It might fit what you are looking for, if you goal is just to publish interesting content, or get the experience learning something new and different, but not for you if you want to monetize.

It is an alternate to the internet. You can self host there, also, but they have built Gemini to be unable to support applications, bots, malware etc… it goes much deeper, if you are curious, you should read, I am fascinated.

It was a little popup that opened the first time I clicked the link. It does not open on subsequent link clicks.

Hey. That link said first name last name (presumably yours) shared that document with you.

Might want to clean that up for privacy sake.

The platform, aka El Hoyo

It is about a futuristic prison, where food is distributed to inmates in a vertical prison. They have elected to be there, on promise of reward on release. They are fed on a vertical table, the descends, level by level.

IMO, it is really about humanity and the choice between self service and a greater good.

It is a great movie. The sequel… Eh.

Less curious about cluster b personality disorders, specifically, and more interested in the practical understanding that (in this case) sometimes, the reason behind someone not valuing another is really about them trying to protect themselves.

The connection between contempt, grandiosity, and shame; it makes sense intuitively, but it is interesting to spell it out that way.

What about other big emotions, how many others are really outputs of another?

Is their a field of study that focuses solely on the behavior, and the root cause, in the way your third and forth paragraphs does? Or, like, a flowchart of emotions and root causes? That was an interesting way to dissect why people might behave in that way.

It might be.

I am surrounded by kind, decent people, but same. They don’t think about, or engage in, these sorts of thoughts, and I try. They just shrug and say their little impact, isn’t enough of an impact to try. Meanwhile, I am over here having a daily existential crisis about all the stupid packaging on my second hand jeans.

I think it is because code switching goes beyond just the words someone uses, and more into how the words are used, and the cultural expectations that come along with the way those words are said.

A lot of those cultural expectations are very American in flavor.

maybe you also experience the same, I am not sure, but I do think it is deeper than just language.

Which ones are you in? I like personal finance and am in several on Reddit, but none here.

Good for you guys! It starts with just a few people, and when people see a few people, they become emboldened to join in. Starting the ball rolling is the hardest part, IMO.

In Anchorage, AK, before yesterday, at our last protest we had maybe 500 people, the one before that, maybe 200, before that, maybe 100 etc…

Yesterday, we had THOUSANDS. 16 different communities put protests on, up from just 5 or 6, a few weeks ago. Something like 70% voted trump last year.

I called both of them. One got my thanks, and one my dissatisfaction. I don’t think he cares… But I did anyway.

I called one and said thanks. Called the other, and told his voicemail the same thing. Not that he will listen… Useless human.

I feel like maybe we should call our 4 senators (AK, MW and both KY) and say thanks for voting the way the did. I am from AK, I generally don’t agree with a lot of what Lisa does, but she does have a history of occasional rank breaking, and, performative or not, she is still one of the only senators who doesn’t religiously fall in line.