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July 24, 2023

ChatGPT on the couch

I asked ChatGPT to put itself on a therapist’s couch.

It concluded it just might be psychotic.

A chat transcript with footnotes.

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Categories: ai, machine learning, philosophy Tagged with: ai • chat • philosophy • psychology Date: July 24th, 2023 dw

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August 26, 2008

DNC chat again tonight

Last night’s IRC chat party was fun. I’m going to set up a room again tonight, starting at 8pm EDT, so we can watch the Democratic convention together: irc://irc.freenode.net/#democonvo. (If that link doesn’t work for you, you’ll have to download an IRC client. I use Chatzilla, an add-on to Firefox. Once you’ve installed it, plugging the URL into Firefox’s address bar should launch Chatzilla automatically.) (Dave Winer also had a chat going, at #dnc08.)

See you then!

[Tags: dnc campaign chat irc obama dnc08 ]

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Categories: Uncategorized Tagged with: campaign • chat • dnc • dnc08 • irc • obama • politics • social networks Date: August 26th, 2008 dw

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July 12, 2008

Plato and chat

Im reading Julian Warners “From Writing to Computers,” published in 1994. In a wonderful chapter he looks at the senses in which the Western tradition thought documents contained or were intelligent — written documents “appear to understand what they are saying,” Plato says. Warner looks carefully at Platos Phaedrus, a seminal text for those concerned with the transition from oral to written cultures. Thats the one where Plato worries that the onset of written documents will ruin human memory: Those who acquire the skill of writing “will cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful; they will rely on writing to bring things to their remembrance by external signs instead of on their own internal resources.”

Plato has another complaint: Writings cant respond to questions: “writing involves a similar disadvantage to painting. The productions of paintings look like living beings, but if you ask them a question they maintain a solemn silence.” Ive taken these quotes from Plato from Warner pp. 58-59.

Makes you wonder what Plato would have made of chat, IM, and SMS.

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Categories: Uncategorized Tagged with: chat • culture • digital culture • im • infohistory • julian_warner • philosophy • plato • sms Date: July 12th, 2008 dw

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