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648 points yoavfr | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 12:36 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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calflegal ◴[05 Sep 25 13:42 UTC] No.45138472[source]▶
As a joke I built https://idk-ask-ai.com/
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eaf ◴[05 Sep 25 15:25 UTC] No.45139657[source]▶
Recently a new philosophy of parenting has been emerging, which can be termed “vibe parenting” and describes a novel method for the individual parent to circumvent an inability to answer the sporadic yet profound questions their children raise by directing them to ask ChatGPT.

https://x.com/erikfitch_/status/1962558980099658144

(I sent your site to my father.)

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1. genewitch ◴[05 Sep 25 18:01 UTC] No.45141564[source]▶
My parents, 40 years ago, would say "look it up", either in the dictionary, or the 1959 encyclopedia set we had. With my kids i never told them to look something up in the literal dictionary, but i would tell them to look at wikipedia or "google it". Not about profound questions, though; although a definition of "profound questions" might jog a memory. We do look things up in an etymology dictionary (i have 5 or 6) sometimes, though.

I am not sure why my parents constantly told me to look things up in a dictionary.

Rarely, but it did happen, we'd have to take a trip to the library to look something up. Now, instead of digging in a card catalog or asking a librarian, and then thumbing through reference books, i can ask an LLM to see if there's even information plausibly available before dedicating any more time to "looking something up."

As i've been saying lately, i use copilot to see if my memory is failing.