Learning with LLMs

A few tips on how to use an LLM to learn something:

1. Make two changes to your base prompt: to be critical rather than agreeable and tell it to prefer to ask a question rather than give an answer.
2. Instead of asking what something means, assert what you think it means and ask for an evaluation or test of that understanding.
3. Provide the context you're using to form your understanding and ask for references to things that you also might need to consider.
4. Assert an outcome or action for a fine-grained course of action, and ask for feedback on that plan.

The primary theme here is to ask for feedback, not information. Feedback is the input of learning. Action is the outcome.

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