I would like there to be something a thread type like A Journal of Not Understanding. As in, a thread where people could just write what they don’t understand about books, movies, children, whatever. It would be different from the Stupid Questions thread in that there wouldn’t be questions; not-understanding things doesn’t mean that one can ask something about them and they would “make sense” after the specific answer is obtained.
Thus, for example, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer used to be an impenetrable book for me at eleven years old. (Perhaps it’s still true.) I didn’t have any reference points to “get it”. Tom was omnipotent when unobserved; Sid simply existed, for whatever reason; and so on. I would not be able to explain what it was that I couldn’t get from the book, but the fact remained.
No, I have not. For the purpose of generating questions? I rather fear this would be misleading at best. It’s not that the problem lies in ‘Tom Sawyer’, after all.
I would like there to be something a thread type like A Journal of Not Understanding. As in, a thread where people could just write what they don’t understand about books, movies, children, whatever. It would be different from the Stupid Questions thread in that there wouldn’t be questions; not-understanding things doesn’t mean that one can ask something about them and they would “make sense” after the specific answer is obtained.
Thus, for example, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer used to be an impenetrable book for me at eleven years old. (Perhaps it’s still true.) I didn’t have any reference points to “get it”. Tom was omnipotent when unobserved; Sid simply existed, for whatever reason; and so on. I would not be able to explain what it was that I couldn’t get from the book, but the fact remained.
Have you tried using ChatGPT for that purpose?
No, I have not. For the purpose of generating questions? I rather fear this would be misleading at best. It’s not that the problem lies in ‘Tom Sawyer’, after all.