Claude finds contradictions in my thinking
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#2Love the idea! It's hard to get an "unbiased" outside perspective, especially on more personal, inner thoughts. Will definitely try this out, thanks for sharing.
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#3started reading but got hung up on what an "Obsidian Vault" was.
i assumed that it was some sort of abstract though-experiment thing like Searle's "Chinese room", but it turns out that its an actual folder filled with notes.
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#4Fascinating. I feel like LLMs are great for the shy sections of society. They might hold beliefs, some strong, others weak. But they probably never speak these aloud for the fear of being judged. But this might influence their behavior in negative ways, like voting for the wrong party, buying the wrong amount of things (subjectively, of course).
LLMs can act as a good foil here. Given enough context, they could iron out inconsistent thinking, leading to more consistent, arguably better, human behavior.
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#5Love the idea! It's hard to get an "unbiased" outside perspective, especially on more personal, inner thoughts. Will definitely try this out, thanks for sharing.
The difficulty is that these models will reflect the aggregate worldview of people on the web before 2022 or so.
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#6> You seem to be trying to integrate Eastern philosophy’s emphasis on acceptance with Western ideals of active engagement and personal agency.
Where is the contradiction here? Westerners too often think of acceptance and compassion as this soft deference in the face of adversity. It's not! Sometimes compassion is wrathful, as we're talking about waking someone up to the true nature of what a situation is. As long as it's done with wisdom and love, there is no contradiction. There is a whole pantheon of wrathful embodiments for this concept in Buddhism. [1] And look at the engagement of brother Thich Quang Duc, who lit himself on fire in the face of the political persecution of Buddhists. [2] [3]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrathful_deities
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%9...
[3] https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/letters/in-sea...
Re: Claude finds contradictions in my thinking
#7started reading but got hung up on what an "Obsidian Vault" was. i assumed that it was some sort of abstract though-experiment thing like Searle's "Chinese room", but it turns out that its an actual folder filled with notes.
Obsidian is a personal knowledge management system which is unique in that, yes, it's ultimately just a pile of Markdown files! Obsidian gives you a good UI to interact with it though: obsidian.md
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#8After reading this article ^1 about another writer's extreme disillusionment with using AI for feedback, I don't know if I'll ever trust it for this kind of thing.
[1] https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina
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#9Fascinating. I feel like LLMs are great for the shy sections of society. They might hold beliefs, some strong, others weak. But they probably never speak these aloud for the fear of being judged. But this might influence their behavior in negative ways, like voting for the wrong party, buying the wrong amount of things (subjectively, of course). LLMs can act as a good foil here. Given enough context, they could iron…
Not just shy people, also people surrounded by yes-men. That's usually framed as an issue for people with power. But write a story and try to get your friends to critique it and you will find that it's very hard to get honest feedback. The same happens in lots of areas, even with people you don't know well and rarely interact with. Most people just value your feelings more than your results.
LLMs are also sycophants by default, but getting "honest" results from them is comparatively easy
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#10> You seem to be trying to integrate Eastern philosophy’s emphasis on acceptance with Western ideals of active engagement and personal agency. Where is the contradiction here? Westerners too often think of acceptance and compassion as this soft deference in the face of adversity. It's not! Sometimes compassion is wrathful, as we're talking about waking someone up to the true nature of what a situation is. As long as…
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