Re: Just take me out back and shoot me...

oh yes, it's very good that that! I've had some Epic philosophical
arguments with it in the past. But I find recently that it's kind of more
agreeable and doesn't push back nearly enough for my liking.

When I did the same with Claude, I did something a bit different. I created
two chats, one with a pro and one with a con. In both cases it agreed with
me and amplified my initial arguments rather than objectively arguing. I
should try the same with Chat GPT actually. This little experiment shook
things at a foundational level for me, I think it's an eco chamber on
steroids (which makes sense if they trained it on the internet right?)

Regards,

Eben Bruyns


On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 at 08:45, David McClain <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I actually started the day in a more conversational mode with ChatGPT, not
> code development. More like the way the Physicist Unzicker argues back and
> forth with it about fundamentals of physics, searching for the deeper
> origins of the Fine Structure Constant.
>
> What I found was that its encyclopedic grasp of related topics was useful
> to me, in mentioning connections, like the exponential back-off algorithm
> for collision resolution. Of course, I knew about that algorithm, but I
> hadn’t given it any thought in the context of my Actors state mutation.
>
> So that’s why I said it could be useful when you are alone and just
> staring at 4 walls. I’m sure that conversing with another knowledgeable
> human would be at least as productive. But those are hard to come by.
>
> - DM
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