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AI Can Help You Make Big Life Decisions
The nice thing about this journaling habit is that I have all of the entries. I know exactly what I was thinking at the time. So I grabbed a bunch of them, threw them into Claude, and asked it to pull out the patterns:
“Here are a few journal entries about whether or not to fundraise for Every. Can you help me find patterns that can help me make a
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Large language models are excellent personality simulators. If you give a language model a prompt about what kind of personality to mimic, it will reliably answer your questions in that style. It can even produce long-form writing consistent with a given personality type. (For more on this, I wrote about it in "Personality Simulation Is Coming.")
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Dan Shipper • AI Can Help You Make Big Life Decisions
LLMs are excellent personality simulators, Shipper argued, and went further by feeding GPT-4 data to simulate his personality. He had it create a personality test that he gave to his then‑girlfriend as well as to his mother, who both lost against the LLM in guessing the right answers.
Simulate future journal entries
Next, I asked Claude to write future journal entries. First, I asked it to journal about how I would feel if we raised a small round for Every (which we did):
“Based on these journal entries, please write a new journal entry as me with how I’d feel if we raised a small $700k round for Every. Try to simulate me and my... See more
Next, I asked Claude to write future journal entries. First, I asked it to journal about how I would feel if we raised a small round for Every (which we did):
“Based on these journal entries, please write a new journal entry as me with how I’d feel if we raised a small $700k round for Every. Try to simulate me and my... See more
Dan Shipper • AI Can Help You Make Big Life Decisions
After feeding Claude his past journals, Dan Shipper let AI write his future entries based on that knowledge of him. As this has been things in the past, the future mapped out by Claude has already happened, and it was surprisingly accurate.