after playing around with gpt-3 for a while, imo this analogy is the best way to interact with the tool.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1339826316074348544 …
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i have found that some people very much dislike metaphors/analogies because they find them too "magical". however they can actually feel very "intuitive". they connect two concepts through an "arc" or "portal" that skips logical deterministic pathinghttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1341959274964996096 …
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this means that a metaphor/analogy "Points" from a Here to a There that is definitely THERE. this means that once you find one metaphor that successfully delivers a payload & connects the dots, you can use gpt-3 to figure out how to deliver other payloads along the same arc!
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so classes of usage like "use it like a chat bot" work by incrementally refining and growing a pointer. it's actually an erroneous model to ascribe it agency when it's more like a knee jerk reaction searching for closure
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with twitter threads, there a sensation of "open" and "closed" just like with stories there is a clear sensation when the story is "finished". (just like a joke "closes" w/ a punchline) the story tapers and there is a sense of finality and closure at a final "point"
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rather than get gpt-3 to actually DO something specific, a better tool might be to find some way to manage these different pointers, cutting off low resonant directions but feeding interesting intermediary results into a main branch
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similar to how the "shape" of a blockchain points in the "direction of god" by requiring hashes to be prefixed with zeroes, this tool would help gradually refine the shape of a initial seed thought by helping to twist and "point" it in the right directionhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1405674449571962883 …
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e.g. an example is a thread of ideas that you wish there were more of, or one that ended too quickly. or a thought that you can lightly grasp but have trouble cohering it into something more resonant
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it helps explore the feeling of "knowing" that something is "there" and "i'll know it when i see it" and allows u to work it out rather than bump around randomly for it e.g. like growing a random plant until the first flower blooms to see its "final form"
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