Notice of Update
I have feed this into ChatGPT4 to see what it had to say on the topic. Since I did not request anything specific, it gave a general synopsis along with a bit of commentary. Continue reading
What Really Happens When You Die?
Introduction
With some poking and prodding ChatGPT4 gives us a survey of various perspectives on death and what happens after.
[Note: ChatGPT is not a scholar. Nor is it a learned individual. ChatGPT is a large language model. This means that it will give us a response created as a construction of most likely words following words following words. I haven’t put in the time to verify each and every one of the facts in this particular chat session. That means you must either take these responses with a grain of salt. Or, you should put in the work to verify yourself. Definitely don’t take a chat AI’s word for it. For myself I have taken this as a curiosity to be explored later on my own — as I am able.] Continue reading
Granting Beingness to a Chatbot
Introduction
This session with ChatGPT is a follow up to Granting Beingness To Another.
In this session we are making the case for granting beingness to another not because they have earned it or deserve it. This conditional approach if flawed. If you are in the process of assembling a parade of example from your life to illustrate some folks just plain don’t deserve this behavior, hold on to your horses. This is about something that one can use as a practice. Continue reading
Granting Beingness To Another
Introduction
In this conversation we sneak up on the topic of granting beingness to a chatbot. But, first we explore the process in a presumed human to human form. Continue reading
ChatGPT — Thought Experiments
Introduction
Working my way through this particular ChatGPT session was very much like a mash up between two different musical styles to create a piece.
I was inching my way — best I could — toward a deeper penetration of the topic. And, ChatGPT was stuck in its life coach mode.
Don’t get me wrong, ChatGPT came forth with more than a few truly juice tidbits and a nice trail of bread crumbs that could be extracted using the Gezertenplatz method.
Here is the full conversation. Continue reading
ChatGPT — Flow States
Introduction
This session was long and very productive.
In these sessions I do not apply the Gezertenplatz Factor to ChatGPT’s responses. I leave them as they were given. If I was working on a play, short story, or a scholarly work I would most definitely subject the replies to scrutiny with edits, corrections, additions, deletions, the whole shebang.
But, these sessions are not me using ChatGPT as a writing tool. This is a dialogue.
However, please pay attention here, just because I do not correct the ChatGPT replies does not mean I accept and/or support them in their entirety.
You will notice that ChatGPT will occasionally slip into what I call “life coach” mode.
In any case, I find these sessions useful. I hope you do as well. Continue reading
The Many Modules Model
I have found it useful to not consider everything that goes on in my inner world as happening in the same bucket. Lumping all observable phenomena into the same bucket simply does not capture co-existence of multiple functionally separable centers. Hence this expedition to clarify for myself the different functional areas of the HBM. Continue reading
ChatGPT: Stolen Focus Session 1
Introduction
Stolen focus is a thing. This is a direct result of an evolving attention economy. This blog is an initial conversation with ChatGPT on the subject. Continue reading
ChatGPT: Writing For Different Age Groups
Introduction
A prompt that many people have used with ChatGPT is to request that the AI rephrase a block of text so that it is better understood by specific age groups. I call this prompting by age groups.
If you are asking ChatGPT to rephrase content so that it is better understood by a specific audience, that is a good thing. Actually asking yourself how well an audience is picking up what you lay down is a good practice.
But, you can go one step further. Rather than asking ChatGPT to target some random age spread (9 to 12 for example) why not ask ChatGPT to tell you the age spreads that come natural to it.
That is what I do in this prompt. Continue reading
Social Media and Creators
Introduction
I’ve been trying to settle on nomenclature related to the creation of digital content and posting of said content to any of a number of popular sites.
Since ChatGPT4 is pretty much permanently too busy to talk, I gave ChatGPT3.5 a go. Turns out he, she, they, it was able to help. (I asked ChatGPT3 which pronoun was most appropriate for an AI. After blah, blah about being an AI with no gender or preferences it got around to saying that “it” was the most common.)