The best thing about a good deep conversation is when the other person gets you: you explain a complicated situation you find yourself in, and find some resonance in their replies. That, at least, is what happens when chatting with the recent large models. But when subjecting the limited human mind to the same prompt—a rather long one—again and again the information in the prompt somehow gets lost, their focus drifts away, and you have to repeat crucial facts. In such a case, my gut reaction is to see if there’s a way to pay to upgrade to a bigger model, only to remember that there’s no upgrading of the human brain.
Paying for someone to put some effort into giving a damn about what you have to say has a long history. Hire a therapist. Pay a teacher. Hire a hooker. Buy a round of drinks. Grow the really good weed and bring it to the party.
And maybe remember that other humans have their own needs and desires, and if you want them to put time and energy into giving a damn about your needs, then you need to reciprocate and spend time doing the same for them instead of treating them like a machine that exists only to serve you. This whole post is coming from a place of reducing every relationship to that and it's kind of disgusting.
It's sadly also an attitude I'm not surprised to see coming out of tech, given how many people don't seem to get that "I got into this field so I could interact with computers, not people" is supposed to be a joke.
Yeah, shared context over time is the answer to all these problems and has been for both history and prehistory. Patience appears to be the scarcest resource of all these days.
Paying for someone to put some effort into giving a damn about what you have to say has a long history. Hire a therapist. Pay a teacher. Hire a hooker. Buy a round of drinks. Grow the really good weed and bring it to the party.
And maybe remember that other humans have their own needs and desires, and if you want them to put time and energy into giving a damn about your needs, then you need to reciprocate and spend time doing the same for them instead of treating them like a machine that exists only to serve you. This whole post is coming from a place of reducing every relationship to that and it's kind of disgusting.