Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
wentsch.me
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.
Open Source Anxiety Toolkit
anxietyaidtools.com
Donald Trump Can't Make Cowards of Us All
theindex.media
I wish people spent more time talking about things they love. I wish people would say, "I fucking love this thing that I found, and here's why." And I wish that people reading that would go, "That's cool that you love that. Here's something that I love," instead of going, "Fuck you for loving that thing." I just wish we spent more time talking
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I'm a big fan of using a specific tool to do a specific thing. I don't like to use hybrid tools. I like to have one tool for one job. I do a lot of things manually. There are workflows I've seen where I could automate the process, but I don't like doing that. I prefer doing things as manually as possible. I'd rather copy and paste something from
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I pretty deliberately don't use tools that have AI built into them. I use specific AI tools for specific things. For example, I'm not a big fan of Notion with its built-in AI. I like to draft a piece in Obsidian or IA Writer. A piece I write starts on my Freewrite, which is a smart typewriter without an internet connection. I sit at that writing
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There's an art to trolling. AI won't create music like the 80s indie pop band Beat Happening, who sort of invented twee pop. Their music was so rough and sometimes off-key. They didn't know how to make music; they just made sounds they liked. AI is not going to do that because it makes music that makes sense. AI writes books that make sense. It's
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That's just what it's like being a human sometimes, I think. It's not that you are Zen, and therefore life is good. It's that every day you wake up and you try to be as calm as you can be and face life with the best energy and intentions that you can. Some days you'll get it right, and some days you won't. But you just keep on trying, which is very
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