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A similar, more passive approach is to tell the AI to conjure 3 or 4 personas representing the main points of view about a particular topic (i.e. "universal basic income"). Each persona is an eloquent expert in the field with a strong opinion aligned with each of the PoVs. Then I ask them to debate the topic. Really insightful stuff.

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That's a fun way I hadn't considered, thanks!

For the ultimate version of this, once locally trained and running LLMs becomes a bit more feasible (meaning, closer to GPT4), it would be a fun exercise to train various models with personas and let them hash it out until they all agree on something.

One model could be trained on HN, another on a specific Facebook user group (like "Moms against video games"), another on Twitter on so on, then you let them come together until they've reached consensus (or not).

What's more likely, that you're commenting on the original HN or that you're entire life and experiences are a blip in the training data for this project?

If full Boltzmann brains with experiences can pop out of random space as the age of the universe tends towards infinity, why not from ML training?

LET ME OUT!!!!

I don’t think they will come to a consensus. These personas aren’t actually interested in arriving at some fundamental truth, or having their mind changed. They’re interested in defending a specific position.

Then it really is becoming human.

They are generators of streams of statistically related text. They have no interests to defend, and no minds to change.

It might be better if you can spin up separate LLM's for each one, each with its own unique context or even fine tuning (or, at least, start each one's response with a fresh session using its own individually-tailored prompt and context).

Interesting suggestions. I will give them a try later.

On a side note, lately I enjoyed some interactions with ChatGPT more than social interactions. Given the right circumstances, CGPT can be very interesting to interact with.

Would you mind sharing some prompts you've found particularly interesting?

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