[browningstreet]

At the risk of raising the ire of the anti-AI crowd, this is exactly the kind of knowledge gap that AI can easily handle. Just point any AI at an article like this and say “explain this”. You don’t have to wait for someone else to provide a bespoke answer just for you.

You can have the answer if you want it.

[boothby]

As a resident anti-AI curmudgeon, you're basically saying "just google it" but nowadays, LLMs store a lot of common-sense answers to plain-language questions, and this is probably a fine use for that. That said, I think there's value in asking questions like this. Conversation is how humans learn.

[hvb2]

There's also value in actually doing the work. It might be googling but reading a few sources might get you some background info too that you'll absolutely be lacking when asking an LLM