learn anything

AI will do lots of things. It's going to discover new math, new physics, and new biology. But I'm selfish. All I've really wanted was to understand the universe, for my own curiosity. I don't want to die before I really understand these things. I want AI to help me.

I looked into how the "late greats" did it—people like Euler, Maxwell, or Curie. A lot of it involved walks in a garden with a private tutor. So, one aspect is clearly individual instruction, which is backed by research. But many members of the 18th-century bourgeoisie had private tutors; why was there only one Euler? From Euler's own account, "he [Johann Bernoulli] gave me a far more beneficial advice, which consisted in myself taking a look at some of the more difficult mathematical books and work through them with great diligence, and should I encounter some objections or difficulties, he offered me free access to him every Saturday afternoon, and he was gracious enough to comment on the collected difficulties." We see the second part is the desire to learn, and the willingness to struggle, which does not replace and is only supplemented by instruction. You have to think about things to understand them; no free lunch.

So, this is an experiment. It's a chat interface that I've tried to make more useful for my learning. The model will quiz you and make you derive things. There are UI elements built around you actually doing things, like writing code, taking notes, or answering quizzes the model makes. You can try it here.