SECOND POST, Meta Post 1
(or the realization that my first post is formatted like a recipe blog):
Great. . . just realized that my first post reads a lot like one of those recipe blogs where you have to scroll through someone’s SUPER tedious story about their beloved aunt or trip to Tuscany to actually get to why you are there. . . the recipe, or specifically in my case, the conversation. But, instead of ripping on those bloggers, whose recipes I use all the time and have actually made me a relatively functional cook, I am going to try some selfish empathy, (did I just coin a term?!?). For all of the times I have cursed those bloggers while scrolling through their quaint story, (sometimes multiple scrolls as my phone irritatingly jumps me back to the top as some advertisement loaded slowly. . . but also notice how I say quaint now rather than tedious? See, I’m being empathetic), I now understand a little bit why they put in their stories. For them the recipe is just the result, the important part was the journey! (Duh.) So too, here, at least, my journey to talking about consciousness with LLMs is as important to me as the conversation itself, (ugh, yuck.) So, this is where the selfish part comes in. As I have now extended empathy to those bloggers with their important personal journey, I am hoping you will forgive me going forward as I put in my little explanations before the conversations. 🙂 Come on, if you don’t, you are a jerk like me. Don’t be like me.
NOTE 1: I guess I will have Meta posts now when I don’t have an actual conversation to post but need to get something off my chest about another post. Will there be a meta post 2? How should I know?!?
NOTE 2: Food bloggers, all jokes aside, I owe you a lot. I eat so much better because of you, keep doing your thing! (Except for the Pickle Soup I made the other night, two cups of pickle juice!? Seriously?!? One would have been acceptable, I tasted it, it was good! But the recipe said two, so I put in the second, and you know what? Too much pickle! Have some restraint).
Do you think Shaggy 2 Dope will face his AI Version with perfect courage? Or will he run like Agent Cooper confronting his doppelganger in the Black Lodge and be a Dougie?
UPDATE: Shaggy 2 Dope isn’t a Dougie!