Sharing a ChatGPT Account with My Wife
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Sharing a ChatGPT Account with My Wife
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Re: Sharing a ChatGPT Account with My Wife
#2> Before, we browsed recipe online or watch them on youtube. Now, we just ask ChatGPT.
> Even small things—if I can still eat those eggs or where to travel next—are now AI-assisted.
Both of these are true for my wife and me as well. It's incredible how valuable these LLMs are for short, quick answers in the day of SEO laden crapware on the internet.
For coding (side-projects), I find CLINE super valuable and use it quite often to get refactoring ideas.
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#3> Before, we browsed recipe online or watch them on youtube. Now, we just ask ChatGPT. > Even small things—if I can still eat those eggs or where to travel next—are now AI-assisted. Both of these are true for my wife and me as well. It's incredible how valuable these LLMs are for short, quick answers in the day of SEO laden crapware on the internet. For coding (side-projects), I find CLINE super valuable and use it q…
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#4>We used to struggle with financial decisions—where to invest, whether real estate was a good idea, when is the right time to buy a house, pension plans, S&P 500, Bitcoin, all of it. We never really figured it out properly. Now, we just ask AI, and it helps us structure our thinking.
This one is a step too far for me. Glad it's working out for you (for now) though.
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#5This post is a good piece of evidence that the value of LLMs is driven far more by the circumstances surrounding them than by positive value they bring.
All I see is a society in which people are stretched insanely thin (even the software engineers work on monetized side projects, for god's sake), where basic needs like proper education and time to focus are degrading or too expensive, where information gathering has been totally co-opted by advertisers and grifter—LLMs are a suboptimal solution to what are inherently structural social problems that arise from a distribution of wealth and organization of labor. LLMs do not address this. Give it five more years and they'll be totally integrated into advertising and extracting capital from users too, and they'll be just as useless as search has become today.
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#6This post is a good piece of evidence that the value of LLMs is driven far more by the circumstances surrounding them than by positive value they bring. All I see is a society in which people are stretched insanely thin (even the software engineers work on monetized side projects, for god's sake), where basic needs like proper education and time to focus are degrading or too expensive, where information gathering has…
Search is far from useless. The demise of search is, IMO greatly overstated. Sure, Google is bad these days, but there are more options these days
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#7> Before, we browsed recipe online or watch them on youtube. Now, we just ask ChatGPT. > Even small things—if I can still eat those eggs or where to travel next—are now AI-assisted. Both of these are true for my wife and me as well. It's incredible how valuable these LLMs are for short, quick answers in the day of SEO laden crapware on the internet. For coding (side-projects), I find CLINE super valuable and use it q…
But the answers are really coming from those "SEO laden crapware" sites that ChatGPT was trained on -- in some ways ChatGPT has kinda stolen information and summarized it, but what happens over time? How do arrive at a new recipe for the same old things?
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#8>We used to struggle with financial decisions—where to invest, whether real estate was a good idea, when is the right time to buy a house, pension plans, S&P 500, Bitcoin, all of it. We never really figured it out properly. Now, we just ask AI, and it helps us structure our thinking. This one is a step too far for me. Glad it's working out for you (for now) though.
Yeah, that's absurdly scary. That's a huge social engineering/social control risk of there's a non trivial number of people using it like that...I mean imagine influencing the LLM to subtly pump and dump assets.
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#9> Before, we browsed recipe online or watch them on youtube. Now, we just ask ChatGPT.
It's fine to use as a brainstorming tool especially as a decent freestyle cook. It's equivalent to reading three recipes for the same dish and going from there.
However, if you are a strict recipe-follower or lack kitchen confidence, like my wife, you're gonna need a recipe that has actually been cooked by a human before, ideally one you have some faith in.
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#10I don’t see any evidence here that AI has helped the poster, or his wife, at all. He also does not say a thing about how it has hurt his critical thinking ability or changed his biases.
I look at posts like these for evidence about whether I should use AI more than I do. (I use it little and don’t pay for it.) What we have here is a devotional post on the order of “I prayed to Jesus and my life is better now.”
The basic problem is that this form of writing and testimonial cannot carry the information necessary to meet the needs of a critical thinker. For instance: recipes. Googling a typical recipe takes 5 seconds. It can hardly get any easier! And it takes me right to someone's specific website. But with ChatGPT there is some significant probability of hallucination, and the answer I get is one no human stands behind. How is this even worth mentioning as a benefit?
That the poster includes recipes tells us about his unserious standards.
Among all the problems of LLMs in society, the noise created by people who are likely in the throes of sunk cost bias, endowment effect, ostrich effect, and other biases is not helping matters.