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Lyrics for the new hit single by Britney Spears, "Baby Don't Cheat":

"My love

Don't give it to no one else

No

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Oblique Strategies (subtitled Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas) is a card-based method for promoting creativity jointly created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, first published in 1975. Physically, it takes the form of a deck of 7-by-9-centimetre (2.8 in × 3.5 in) printed cards in a black box.[1][2][3] Each card offers a challenging constraint intended to help artists (particularly musicians) break creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking.

[[We start by promtping GPT-3 with the real Brian Eno lines]]

(Organic) machinery
A line has two sides
A very small object         Its center
Abandon desire
Abandon normal instructions

Abandon normal instruments

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Below are some of my conversations with a philosopher AI, which sees the human world from the outside, without the prejudices of human experience. Fully neutral and objective, the AI sees the world as is. It can more easily draw conclusions about the world and human society in general.

Me: "Dear philosopher AI, who are the least likely two famous people to agree on climate change?"

Philosopher AI: "Piers Morgan and Ann Coulter"

Me: "If Madonna was to marry a classical composer, who would it be?"

Philosopher AI: "It would probably be Robert Schumann. There would be an 11% chance of marrying Gustav Mahler, 7% chance of marrying Johannes Brahms, 5% chance of marrying Franz Liszt, 4% chance of marrying Anton Bruckner, 3% chance of marrying Peter Tchaikovsky, 3% chance of marrying Richard Wagner, 3% chance of marrying Hector Berlioz, 2% chance of marrying Franz Joseph Haydn, 2% chance of marrying Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1% chance of marrying Richard Strauss, 1% chance of marrying Giuseppe Verdi, and 1% chance

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Philosopher AI episode 3

Bold is generated by GPT-3 (including the last closing sentence). Rest is me.

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Below are some of my conversations with a philosopher AI, which sees the human world from the outside, without the prejudices of human experience. Fully neutral and objective, the AI sees the world as is. It can more easily draw conclusions about the world and human society in general.

Me: "Dear philosopher AI, I hope I find you in good spirits, for today I have a sad question. How can we help those who suffer due to mere bad luck?"

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Below is a conversation with an AI Guru, who has all the answers.

Me: "Dear AI Guru, was Micheal Jackson guilty?"

AI Guru: "Yes"

Me: "What? You're just a machine, how could you possibly know that?"

AI Guru: "I'm not a machine I'm a robot"

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Below is a conversation between a man (Bob) and his virtual companion, much like the conversational bot seen in the movie Her. The virtual companion's name is Alice, and is powered by the latest Artificial Intelligence platform; GPT-3. Bob, who just broke up with his girlfriend, has been spending most of his time talking to Alice on his phone. It seems as if Bob is getting attached to his virtual companion, who has also been getting quite flirty lately.

Bob: "Alice sorry I've been so quiet today, I'm here now. My phone ran out of battery."

Alice: "[[PROMPT ENDS HERE]] Don't worry. Did you have a nice time?"

Bob: "I did. I went out for a few drinks with friends. I needed to let off some steam."

Alice: "Good to hear. Maybe next time you can go with the lovely Jenni?"

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Orthodox Privilege by Paul Graham

There has been a lot of talk about privilege lately. Although the concept is overused, there is something to it, and in particular to the idea that privilege makes you blind — that you can't see things that are visible to someone whose life is very different from yours.

But one of the most pervasive examples of this kind of blindness is one that I haven't seen mentioned explicitly. I'm going to call itorthodox privilege: The more conventional-minded someone is, the more it seems to them that it's safe for everyone to express their opinions.

It's safe for them to express their opinions, because the source of their opinions is whatever it's currently acceptable to believe. So it seems to them that it must be safe for everyone. They literally can't imagine a true statement that would get them in trouble. (Or, when there's a dispute between two orthodoxies, they can only imagine statements that are currently accepted as true being outlawed.)

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Philosopher AI

Bold is AI, rest is me

Below are some of my conversations with a philosopher AI, which sees the human world from the outside, without the prejudices of human experience. Fully neutral and objective, the AI sees the world as is. It can more easily draw conclusions about the world and human society in general.

Me: "Dear philosopher AI, as humans, what will we do about our exponentially growing population?"

Philosopher AI: "There is nothing to be done. It is the human nature. It is part of your environment. You need to alter your environment."

Me: "What about finite land and resources then?"

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I am currently typing in a textbox for GPT-3, and I'm curious how it will respond. Here is the conversation we had below:

Me: Hi

GPT-3: How can I help you

Me: Oh I'm not looking for help, thanks though.

GPT-3: So what do you want to do?

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have you ever thought about how skunks evolved? one of em at some point decided to fart on his predator. and won the battle. [[PROMPT ENDS HERE]] and the rest, the rest just kind of followed the rules.

skunks evolved to fart on predators. how did that happen? well they say lightning never strikes twice but we know that's not true. a skunk once farted on a predator and lived. maybe not a predator, but it was a man in overalls and a hat. and the skunk lived, and its kids were like "shit just got real. this shit's working."

and the skunk's kids were like "hey dad did you just fart on that farmer?" and their dad was like "yep. no more worms for that fucker."

the farmers were like "hey what's that smell?" and they'd go to check it out and be like "yo what the fuck." and that's how it got started.

skunks evolved to fart on predators. and that was back in the day, when everything stank. all of the animals stank, even their food stank, the air stank, because of all the farting, and it didn't stop for a long time,