It then proceeded to tell me that the issue was the version of the software I was using, gave me wrong instructions to compile the software, then kept blaming my os for the issues.

It turned out I already had the latest version of the software even though ChatGPT confidentially told me the issues with it’s produced files wasn’t as a result of it, but rather issues with my versioning

I said maybe next time, opened Google search and the 2nd result had a config that worked without issue. That page was over 10 years old, and yet still Artificial Intelligence couldn’t just present that to me in a prettier way.

For writing a script for a specific task in my day to day cloud computong job, AI is becoming less useful not more. I shudder to think what happens when all interactions are ceded to AI

think I like the idea of HAL telling me positive and self affirming shit…shine me on HAL, shine me on…

If I ask it to “read Knickerblogger and tell me about geo”, I’ll get a crap answer. But if I paste 2,000 words you actually wrote and say “tell me about the person who wrote this” I’ll get a detailed and accurate reply.

It will also take a longer time to process the second question, presumably bc it’s actually reading the words.

Consciousness doesn’t sit inside us like a battery — it is the ongoing act of regarding ourselves, of looping recognition back upon experience.

maybe consciousness — our vaunted distinction — is itself overrated. Maybe it isn’t the secret sauce but the byproduct. A feedback loop of self-regard we mistake for depth.

well said sir, well said indeed…