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Re:The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you... by selestify on Sunday April 17, 2022 @12:58AM (#31058637)
> It might sound silly but I'm always amazed at the fresh perspectives I'm able to obtain when I ask "someone smarter" for advice in my imagination.

That sounds eerily like asking GPT3 to pretend to be someone else.

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Re:The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you... by andai on Sunday April 17, 2022 @02:33AM (#31058963)
Yes, and GPT-3 has the advantage of having read all their books!
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Re:The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you... by angrais on Sunday April 17, 2022 @04:47AM (#31059494)
Yet understood very little!
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Re:The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you... by CrazyStat on Sunday April 17, 2022 @09:03AM (#31060548)
Not so different from my brain, then!
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Re:The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you... by astrostl on Sunday April 17, 2022 @08:20PM (#31065903)
Rommel, you magnificent bastard!
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