[vishnugupta]

I can somewhat relate to this in the sense that LLMs help me explore different paths of my thought process. The only way to do this earlier was to actually sit down and write it all out and carefully look for gaps. But now the fast feedback loop of LLMs speeds up this process. At times it even shows some path which I hadn't thought of. Or it firms up a direction which I thought only had vague connection.

To take one concrete example, it helped me get a well rounded picture of how British despite having such low footprint in India (at their peak there were about 150K of them) were able to colonise it with 300+ million population.

[tommica]

> ...sense that LLMs help me explore different paths of my thought process

Are you able to expand on this? I'm really curious to know what you mean by "different paths of though process"

[vishnugupta]

That was a typo, sorry. Meant to write “thought process..”.

Continuing my example…LLM listed out a bunch of reasons such as advanced weapons, organizational structure, etc. I can then explore each of those areas further.

Or when I wanted to understand the raise of regional languages in India. Similar process as before…

My larger point was that LLMs now makes it possible to speed run this research curiosity of mine. This sort of a thing was next to impossible in traditional google/web search world.

Of course we need to fact check and eventually read the actual source.