Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
ChatGPT basically solved the meaning crisis The answer is 80% Viktor Frankl and 20% Daoism. All other options are either nonsense copes or preludes to authoritarianism. https://gist.github.com/vgururao/c40115340adc1fcfab4067612a8f5934
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Patrick Atwater
@patwater
Ha! I’d be curious to the prompt here ?
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Nothing special. Just a regular chat session with no clever tricks https://chatgpt.com/share/67da4a59-631c-8002-9ad1-fd34fc576b3e
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Patrick Atwater
@patwater
I was curious if Frankel was coming from you or the bot Why 80% Frankle and not 80% daoism btw While we're throwing out percents This framework seems like like premium mediocre precast for the 70% https://harpers.org/archive/2024/11/the-seventy-percent-yiyun-li/ Here again let me turn to the 70 percent rule. For any society, regarding any proposition, the population will spread out on a spectrum: 20 percent will strongly disagree, 70 percent will be more ambivalent, and 10 percent will be in total agreement. Someone falling into that 10 percent may feel that the rest of the population fails to meet their expectations. Those 20 percent on the other side, one suspects, will not change their minds, and we are hemmed in by them. And yet it may not be wise to treat the middle 70 percent as though they were the same as the 20 percent.
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