Are you trying to copy The Matrix? With some "know thyself" thing?
You know that it's a trick, right?
I can just not use AI. I don't have an inferiority complex about it. If it's better than me, it's better than me. I'm not measuring it though. Are you?
I don't spend time in philosophy to look at a mirror. I spent time to look inwards. It's quite different. AI can't do that.
Be cool, Mr. 0x6c7.
Regarding measuring: I’m not interested in “measuring” myself against AI as an adversary or competitor. Instead, I’m curious to see what emerges when AI functions as a partner in self-inquiry; one capable of sustaining recursive dialogue beyond what I could maintain alone.
I don't stand on AI. That's easy for me.
As for being “shot in the foot,” I see that as a possible cost of inquiry. Sometimes discomfort or missteps are necessary steps toward new insight. Don't get me wrong, though, I’m not spending all day waxing philosophical with language models to “find myself.” This was simply something interesting that emerged along the way.
I’m curious, though—how do you see this dynamic unfolding?
Sometimes it's a celebrity, sometimes is a group, sometimes a concept. Spies, commies, AI, feminism. You like to feel like you're the one giving the cards, that you are important. If you fail doing that, you try to retcon it.
I also think you're human, and you're out of "invisible enemies" to wear. I could list all of them. The fact that you're nitpicking small things is not a sign that you are close, instead, it's a sign that you are out of ideas.
Did I make a correct profiling? (rethorical)
<praise>
<elaboration>
<follow-up>
Assuming that the comment is truly written by a human, have you spent enough time with chatgpt that its cadence has been backpropagated into your mind?
I don't think I dispute anything you say. I deeply recognize the existential isolation you expressed so well. I approached this experiment from the perspective that these models were interesting and possibly useful tools in this (possibly foolish, but most definitely Sisyphean) endeavor, not as shepherds guiding me on the road to self-understanding.
This post has 52.
Interesting!
FWIW, this post seems longer than most of OPs usual posts.
I’ll also add: as a longtime user of em-dashes, the constant low-effort dismissal of any writing using an em-dash as “must be genai!” is super annoying. So much so that I’ve made an effort to stop using them in my writing.
There’s some poetic irony in using genai to dismiss someone else’s work for perceived use of genai.
Now we see people relating to their GPTs as if something profound is happening, but I suspect nothing is. This activity leads nowhere.
I work with and test these things. I find them creepy and I refuse to engage with them as if they were thinking beings. They are utterly unreliable narrators of their own “thoughts.”
0x6c75636964•3d ago
krackers•6h ago
Not yet, anyway. But they're a wonderful tool for exploring "idea space".