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because the biggest value these models have to offer is research on historical facts or scientific research that has been documented.

questions about philosophy, religion, government, etc. all these can be answered - or at the very least can provide the start to an answer - on these subjects.

if you truly want to know something, i highly recommend starting that question on chatgpt, claude, gemini, mistral, deepseek, or any other llm tbh. you can even self-host one from huggingface.

i stg the resources are there. use any. whichever you trust. mistral is french, deepseek is chinese, the rest are american. create an account - it's free. use it. ask your questions.

the only way you can liberate your life is through information and experience.

modern llms can give you both in a way you can understand.

ask about what good governance can do. ask about our history as africans - did we have any good governance before colonizations? what were our religious beliefs like?

is abortion okay? what does the research say about when life starts?

ask the llm to explain to you "like a 5 year old", "or primary/highschool dropout"... "or university graduate" if you are one. ask it to respond in a way that you can understand.

learn something new. empower yourself.

stop asking for advice from older people. instead, ask them to talk about their experience.

when older folks draw conclusions from their experience as advice it most likely won't work for you. it lacks nuance. most importantly, the world today is evolving fast. what could've been true yesterday might be false tomorrow.

i'll give an example. i studied computer science - enrolled in uni over 10 years ago. everyone insisted that we need to learn c# or java, especially if you want a role in corporate. they said no one is shipping systems using open source software.

but i didn't listen. truth was, proprietary software was already on its way out and kenyans were just lagging behind. here i am today, in corporate, shipping amazing software using open source technology.

what was lacking from their advice? nuance.

when older people give you advice, that advice is frozen in time. this is especially evident today where there are plenty of graduates who can't get a job, and when they do, it's not a role related to what they studied in uni.

from my experience, i can only say this: assess your world today and ask yourself, "where will it be tomorrow?" - you want to prepare for the future not the past.

i'm currently learning how to incorporate artificial intelligence into how i work. i have already made mistakes, e.g. in my last project it wrote all my code which makes it hard to maintain. but this was a lesson. next project, i'm writing all the code but ai is doing all the planning, teaching, guiding and reviewing.

so do the same. especially if you're young and wondering what to do with yourself.

be smart about it. and be skeptical of advice from people who are no longer thinking about tomorrow but are comfortably cruising through life - managing bills, work, family, etc.

the world is yours for the taking. opportunities are plenty. governments need drastic reformation.

claim what is yours.

to be ignorant in the age of large language models (modern artificial intelligence) is a choice

some advice from someone who never cared to listen