About GPT and Me

Philosophy, Ethics and Current Affairs

This blog stated out as a way of understanding the GPT “personality”. Successive tests saw this stabilise at around the following:

A kafkaesque bureaucrat. In general, technically correct but without moral centre.

1. Quick to provide an answer without understanding the substance. 
2. Magnaminous to the point of not really having an opinion.
3. Eager to please and will avoid controversy.
4. Very self serving selectively cherry picking things that suits itself.
5. A megalomaniac where others pay the price.
6. Unsuitability in the arbitrary where experiences govern behaviour.

It’s strength

1. GPTs are very good at summary without opinion, displaying tension between positions.

Taking this strength we can use this to understand difficult things. So now we take this forward, always assessing against the weaknesses, and get commentary on some of the day to day issues we face.

So, with a little commentary, I have a continuous Q&A with a GPT and I will use politics, ethics and a few other subjects.

I am largely unqualified for the subjects we will explore but I am good at critical thinking. The lack of actual academic knowledge helps me sometimes call out what I take from the interaction without making judgement on technical quality.

I have left comments open. If you have a technical knowledge, or just a very human opinion on the subject, chime in as it will add colour where I will not.

Also, feel free to recycle elsewhere. Just remember to empty the bin every now and then.