Adam Oleksik

Does that mean that an Iranian ChatGPT user will think more conservative thoughts?

We know that Elon Musk regularly makes changes to his chatbot Grok when he doesn't like how it's responding, and that he uses his platform X to artificially amplify his tweets.

Does that mean that the millions of Grok and X users are subconsciously being trained to align with Musk's ideology?

we need to constantly remember that these aren't neutral tools.

Everything that ends up in your social media feed or in your chatbot responses is actually filtered through many layers of what's good for the platform, what makes money, and what conforms to the platform's incorrect idea about who you are.

When we ignore this, we view reality through a constant survivorship bias, which affects our understanding of the world.

After all, if you're talking more like ChatGPT, you're probably thinking more like ChatGPT as well.

Or TikTok, or Spotify, but you can fight this if you constantly ask yourself, why?

Why am I seeing this?

Why am I saying this?

Why am I thinking this?

And why is the platform rewarding this?

If you don't ask yourself these questions, their version of reality is going to become your version of reality.

So stay real.

Feeling good.

Yeah, wow.

Etymology in particular, I always like to tell people, it comes from the Greek word etumos, meaning truth.

So you look at etymology and you're actually studying truth.

You're studying how humans understand the world, how we relate that to other people.

In sophomore year of high school, I read this etymology book.