> We don’t take a cut — you keep 100% of what you earn through your Amazon Associates account.
But, it's AI so: Alice sends Bob to SweepIQ, Bob uses a bunch of GPUs to learn about making bagels, Bob buys a deep fryer from Amazon. How did SweepIQ pay for those GPUs?
I'd rather not learn more, faster, and I think the attitude of wanting to do so is unhealthy, as well as is the attitude of optimizing productivity.
I think it's better to learn for the love of it, and keep the automation of learning to a minimum. I understand the desire to make learning faster in the short term, but I can't help thinking that in the long-term it leads to imbuing learning with an atmosphere of necessity and the stripping of beauty from the holistic experience of learning as wonderful discovery. No thanks.
Learning more faster and learning for the love of it are not mutually exclusive. Also there are different contexts in which I want to learn, and in some of them, speed matters, in some it doesn't. I don't think it makes sense to make blanket statements like this even about your own learning, much less about others.
I think when speed matters in learning, it's time to modify one's life so that it no longer matters. I understand necessity, but that's just the constraint of a suboptimal condition. I think it makes total sense, and we need more absolute stances rather than acting like optimizing machines.
Just because sometimes you just want a 30 second break down on how to boil pasta, or whatever, doesn't mean we're becoming "optimizing machines", just that the context matters. Sometimes I don't want to or need to know the "fundamentals of why water boils", I just need to know enough in order to complete some other thing.
> it's time to modify one's life so that it no longer matters
It sounds like you have 100% control of your own life, which might be great and all, but it isn't very realistic for most humans on the planet. Time is limited, and what we spend our time on is a choice. I too probably spend too much time learning about stuff I cannot really apply, because I like learning, but sometimes you're faced with something, you need to make a choice within N minutes/hours/days, and spending 1 month researching the topic before making a choice just isn't feasible.
Pracically, most of the time, IMO, where learning speed matters, is when you're competing against someting, could be an individual, or a startup, etc, which doesn't seem to be the optimal condition one would like to be in.
First counterexample that comes to mind, you're traveling to a country for one reason or another, and it'd be helpful to learn or know more of the language. The faster you learn, the more helpful it'll be.
Another example, your friend's band's guitarist got sick and you've got a week to learn a full set's worth of music
Generally I find some urgency to be a nice motivator
The subsections / follow-up questions repeat too much information that has already been explained.
I don't think this has the kind of well-paced progression of concepts that you'd want for learning anything efficiently.
The answers also have the same vague noncommittal tone that LLMs often have, but I don't know if there's much that can be done about that.
What a strange play: https://www.sweepiq.com/earn-money#:~:text=easiest%20way%20t...
> We don’t take a cut — you keep 100% of what you earn through your Amazon Associates account.
But, it's AI so: Alice sends Bob to SweepIQ, Bob uses a bunch of GPUs to learn about making bagels, Bob buys a deep fryer from Amazon. How did SweepIQ pay for those GPUs?
it's just considered marketing cost. they might not make $ from Bob, but they increase their client base by 1
any non-referral users, SweepIQ still keeps their amazon profit (and uses that to pay for the gpu's)
+ in future they might add another monetization, so perhaps Bob will pay $15/mo for SweepIQ Premium
I'd rather not learn more, faster, and I think the attitude of wanting to do so is unhealthy, as well as is the attitude of optimizing productivity.
I think it's better to learn for the love of it, and keep the automation of learning to a minimum. I understand the desire to make learning faster in the short term, but I can't help thinking that in the long-term it leads to imbuing learning with an atmosphere of necessity and the stripping of beauty from the holistic experience of learning as wonderful discovery. No thanks.
Learning more faster and learning for the love of it are not mutually exclusive. Also there are different contexts in which I want to learn, and in some of them, speed matters, in some it doesn't. I don't think it makes sense to make blanket statements like this even about your own learning, much less about others.
I think when speed matters in learning, it's time to modify one's life so that it no longer matters. I understand necessity, but that's just the constraint of a suboptimal condition. I think it makes total sense, and we need more absolute stances rather than acting like optimizing machines.
> rather than acting like optimizing machines
Just because sometimes you just want a 30 second break down on how to boil pasta, or whatever, doesn't mean we're becoming "optimizing machines", just that the context matters. Sometimes I don't want to or need to know the "fundamentals of why water boils", I just need to know enough in order to complete some other thing.
> it's time to modify one's life so that it no longer matters
It sounds like you have 100% control of your own life, which might be great and all, but it isn't very realistic for most humans on the planet. Time is limited, and what we spend our time on is a choice. I too probably spend too much time learning about stuff I cannot really apply, because I like learning, but sometimes you're faced with something, you need to make a choice within N minutes/hours/days, and spending 1 month researching the topic before making a choice just isn't feasible.
Pracically, most of the time, IMO, where learning speed matters, is when you're competing against someting, could be an individual, or a startup, etc, which doesn't seem to be the optimal condition one would like to be in.
First counterexample that comes to mind, you're traveling to a country for one reason or another, and it'd be helpful to learn or know more of the language. The faster you learn, the more helpful it'll be.
Another example, your friend's band's guitarist got sick and you've got a week to learn a full set's worth of music
Generally I find some urgency to be a nice motivator
SweepIQ is basically a Perplexity-style tool, but free — thanks to Amazon affiliate links — and with a stronger focus on topic exploration.
Nice touches: follow-up questions, structured themes, and an “explain like I’m five” option (would love a slider for that).
Rough edges with saving and sources, but overall a solid entry point for learning any topic.
fwiw - Google has a very similar tool called "Learn About" - https://learning.google.com/experiments/learn-about/signup
I queried Trump and it only covered his first term...
Similar https://www.sweepiq.com/chat?message=how+does+MCP+tool+use+w...
> The Manufacturing Control Plan (MCP) tool is a crucial element in ensuring product quality and process control within manufacturing environments
Very good job! I believe this AI tool is perfect for ideation too.