I should also mention that I checked my repo before sending this and discovered I made several errors in how I linked the files togeter
I enlisted the assistance of a Gemini model to help me straighten it out. It's fully working now. I currently have only two projects, and both relate to this issue. On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 11:50 AM John Abreau <[email protected]> wrote: > It's an interesting hypothesis, isn't it? Well, I've attached a > markdown file that purports to demonstrate the claim. > > There are two sections to the test. The first should be run in a standard > AI chat window and the second in an incognito window. For best results, use > each as the very first prompt of a newly opened chat window. > > There are basically two tests in each, using exactly the same prompt text > but two different sets of character pairs. In both cases, the pairs consist > of two instances of the same character: one in its normal state, and the > other with its age radically modified. > > Give it a try, and then let the list know what you think. > > > On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 9:49 AM Rich Pieri <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 5 May 2026 23:55:41 -0500 >> [email protected] wrote: >> >> > This has completely unleashed my creative potential. I’m no longer >> > stuck in the weeds of formatting; I’m acting as a director. I've put >> > together a manifesto on this "Digital Immunity" approach—moving from >> > muzzling wolves to domesticating puppies. >> >> Bluntly, this sounds like marketing drivel to me. Every creative type I >> know -- authors, actors, artists, gamesmasters, you name it -- who has >> tried using a chatbot agrees that chatbots don't help their creativity. >> If anything, they find chatbots hinder their creativity. >> >> On Wed, 6 May 2026 04:47:24 -0400 >> Dan Ritter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I think that intense periods of interaction with LLMs exploits a >> > flaw in human brains, to which people are variously vulnerable. >> >> Also this. Chatbots are designed to be sycophantic in order to "drive >> engagement" as their operators put it. Critics call it what it is: >> driving addictive behavior and dependency. >> >> -- >> \m/ (--) \m/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > Email: [email protected] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID > 0x920063C6 > PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 > > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email: [email protected] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
