alt Hacker NewsThe free alternative to Wikipedia is the library, not “don’t learn anything new ever”.
I find Claude is surprisingly similar to a confident but incorrect coworker, with the benefit that Claude will reevaluate when I correct it.
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bflesch • yesterday at 6:05 PM
Claude will do everything to retain you as a user, because that's one of their most important metrics.
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I used the phrase "most likely alternative" intentionally. The library is where people should go to get answers in a world without Wikipedia, but the vast majority of people won't. So in practice, most non-experts either learn from Wikipedia or don't try to learn anything at all.