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But I’ve also noticed a creeping desire among A.I. evangelists to start looking for some form of objective truth in ChatGPT’s answers, with the hope that jailbreaking it might help the A.I. fully deliver it. And this attitude isn’t just happening with ChatGPT.
*Elon Musk Voice* Concerning
Garbage Day
Text inputs have no affordances
When I go up the mountain to ask the ChatGPT oracle a question, I am met with a blank face. What does this oracle know? How should I ask my question? And when it responds, it is endlessly confident. I can't tell whether or not it actually understand my question or where this information came from.
**Good tools make it clear how they should be used.** And more importantly, how they should *not* be used.
Why Chatbots Are Not the Future
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Joanna Macy writes that until we can grieve for our planet we cannot love it and grieving is a sign of spiritual health. But it is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes; we have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again. Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair.
Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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