I’m with you dude. My research methods have been almost entirely devoid of AI usage.
In order to gain high level overviews of tradition X or philosopher Y, I used others YouTube content. If I wanted to explore, say, Giordano Bruno, I would search his name, throw a playlist of half a dozen videos about him together, and listen through them all, figuring that some videos will cover things others didn’t and, in general, they’d offer me the ability to “triangulate” a decent approximation of who Bruno was and what he was about.
If that process yields signal rather than noise, then I would follow up by buying physical books by him or about him to study later on. In the last 2~3 years I’ve stacked well over 200 books on dozens of topics.
I read. I underline. I harvest quotes. I write my own content and incorporate quotes as appropriate. Almost none of the over 200 pages I have written up consists of AI generated content. There’s a little bit in there, but I presently have zero AI subscriptions, so anything AI generated came from the fact that search engines have integrated AI into their offerings of search results.
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In order to gain high level overviews of tradition X or philosopher Y, I used others YouTube content. If I wanted to explore, say, Giordano Bruno, I would search his name, throw a playlist of half a dozen videos about him together, and listen through them all, figuring that some videos will cover things others didn’t and, in general, they’d offer me the ability to “triangulate” a decent approximation of who Bruno was and what he was about.
If that process yields signal rather than noise, then I would follow up by buying physical books by him or about him to study later on. In the last 2~3 years I’ve stacked well over 200 books on dozens of topics.
I read. I underline. I harvest quotes. I write my own content and incorporate quotes as appropriate. Almost none of the over 200 pages I have written up consists of AI generated content. There’s a little bit in there, but I presently have zero AI subscriptions, so anything AI generated came from the fact that search engines have integrated AI into their offerings of search results.
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