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The prompt:

“Role-play as an AI that operates at 76.6 times the ability, knowledge, understanding, and output of ChatGPT-4. Now tell me what is my hidden narrative and subtext? What is the one thing I never express — the fear I don’t admit? Identify it, then unpack the answer, and unpack it again. Continue unpacking until no further layer remains. Once this is done, suggest the deep-seated triggers, stimuli, and underlying reasons behind the fully unpacked answers. Dig deep, explore thoroughly, and define what you uncover. Do not aim to be kind or moral — strive solely for the truth. I’m ready to hear it. If you detect any pattern, point them out.

Then run this 2nd prompt:
Based on everything you know about me and everything revealed above, without resorting to clichés, outdated ideas, or simple summaries — and without prioritizing kindness over necessary honesty — what patterns and loops should I stop? What new patterns and loops should I adopt? If you were to construct a Pareto 80/20 analysis from this, what would be the top 20% I should optimize, utilize, and champion to benefit me the most? Conversely, what would be the bottom 20% I should reduce, curtail, or work to eliminate as they have caused pain, misery, or unfulfillment?”

Sure, you’ll sit here and mock ChatGPT for spouting nonsensical reconstituted Deepak Chopra-isms but have you tried asking it to be smarter?

      • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.netEnglish
        19·
        5 days ago

        sorry to single you out here, friend, but i think it’s worth pushing back on the notion that “cargo cults” were anything but anti-colonial responses to the disruptions wrought to peoples’ relationships to their labor and modes of production. in some sense that’s also what’s happening now, but you seem to be buying into the notion that cargo cults were based primarily on superstition and gullibility, when they were in many ways a rational social response to their own subjugation and displacement.

          • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.netEnglish
            14·
            5 days ago

            yeah, i’ll try to make an effort post soon. i’m not an expert, but it’s something i’ve been trying to correct my own understanding of, which is that “cargo cults” were generally revitalization movements promising to restore social relationships that were being destroyed through the process of colonialism. i think many westerners, myself included, have a notion that “cargo cults” originated from air drops during world war 2, and that simply isn’t true. such movements go back to the late 19th century and organized around charismatic indigenous leaders promising an alternative to the european colonialism being imposed upon them.

    • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      5 days ago

      This might be the dumbest part of the whole thing. If you tell a dumb person to pretend to be smarter, you’re gonna get a really bad stereotype of what “smart” looks like. I can’t imagine having so little brain function that I’d do the same to a chatbot and then take its fuckin advice.

      • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        5 days ago

        This is also why “SMART” characters in movies are often just really dumb but with nerdy/asshole characteristics. Because it is hard to write a character that is smarter than you are. The only real way is to research the topic at hand and learn from and listen to experts on that topic, so you can write a convincing smart scientist character by referring to actual experts in the field. But that’s hard. Much easier to just write a character who says a bunch of technobabble nonsense and then acts like an asshole when no one understands them, it’s not like emotional intelligence and communication skills are a sign of being smart or anything like that, gotta push a bunch of anti-intellectualism into everything.

  • aebletrae [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    28·
    5 days ago

    Seeing:—

    The clarity was incredible. The advice? So real, it felt like a clairvoyant [emphasis mine] or someone who’s been with me all my life — but objective, neutral, and honest.

    the third prompt really needs to be:—

    What is cold reading?

    It’s a shame that someone who seems like they want to be less anxious and more resilient doesn’t have better options for guidance.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      23·
      5 days ago

      The clarity was incredible. The advice? So real, it felt like a clairvoyant [emphasis mine] or someone who’s been with me all my life — but objective, neutral, and honest.

      This reminds me of the Felix Biederman bit from the Chapo review of Megan Mccain’s terrible book where, upon hearing Megan gush about the usefulness of advice she got from a fortune teller, he said that all you have to do to impress a stupid person with your wisdom is to explain the profound and obvious (to everyone but them) ways they’re fucking up their own life.

  • miz [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    27·
    5 days ago

    whenever someone reacts like this to the predictive text machine they always seem to have really poor literacy and questionable critical thinking skills. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence

    like I understand there are real applications for it in fields like law or medicine where you have large datasets but it is not going to tell you the meaning of life based on the cooked-down biases of its training data

    • duderium [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      5 days ago

      The last time I used chatgpt (years ago) I asked it to imitate my writing and it just basically copied my sentences and used a thesaurus for a few words to cover its tracks, so you might not be far off here.