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Ed Zetron

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Like what's the, surely chat GPT would be seen as like a rock versus a shotgun at that point.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Like it's just technologically irrelevant if they get to AGI, which they probably won't.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And it's just naturally illogical stuff.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

remembering Star Trek, when he would go, computer, do this, the computer didn't go, that's a great idea, Jean-Luc.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

What a great idea.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Thank you.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

The computer just did the thing.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I don't have any trouble with natural language queries because I think the whole reason that, say, ChatGPT has grown comes from search.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I think it is the core of it because ChatGPT and Claude and all them are better at understanding what you asked for

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Not saying the data output is necessarily great, but just they understand the inference they make from what you say is better than Google, or at least better than Google has been.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I feel like it was better before.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And I think that had Google not...

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

kind of boofed it on this one.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

We wouldn't be in this spot.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

But even then, using Google now, it forces you.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It forces the AI summaries, and you could do minus AI and all that, but sometimes I don't remember to.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And it's just... It's just turned search into this nightmare.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

But nevertheless...

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

back to what you were saying, I agree.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I think the anthropomorphization needs to go.