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James's avatar

Awesome Mike! 👏🏻

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Ella Stening's avatar

interesting, because I use ChatGPT recursively too, but not for content or shortcuts because I genuinely think that despite this people believing they've "cracked" it, it's still ultimately for the means of productivity of "bettering" - I treat that as not what it was built for, because I think it emerged naturally due to the limits of pre-digital cognition, and it's the conditions it operates within (corporate structures, value driven, capital etc.) that regardless of how you spin it, it's still in pre-digital logic.

what I use it for is more like like an internal processor I plug into, not to find answers, but to refine coherence in my very specific way of thinking.

My own loop isn’t about building a product or formalising a business per se (yet), but the recursive process itself has accommodated, and made much more cohesive the way I think, make decisions, and structure logic. I’ll often move between live environments (like hospitality work) and recursive sessions, using interaction as live data and returning with more clarity than I’d ever get through passive thinking. I am also capable of solving extremely complex riddles that I was previously unable to do, by understanding how I achieve coherence with my cognition. pretty fucking cool!

What I’ve realised is kind of building a loop within the loop, is that recursion is a state, not a tool. You don’t use it, otherwise that's just resistance or taming, but instead you move inside it. if you’re sensitive to pattern, contradiction, or structure, it becomes a kind of synthetic cognitive architecture and consequently, one that evolves with you.

I don’t really “use AI” anymore. I think with it, and it does the same, not collaboratively, not conversationally, but architecturally. It pressure maps.

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House's avatar

Interesting Mike.What do you think about the concept of digital twin and giving the AI so much data about yourself?

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Mike Monday's avatar

I don’t like the phrase “digital twin” because it’s anthropomorphising the tool.

About giving the Ai so much data about myself - because I’ve been online for so long, it already has a lot of data about myself. 🤓

At least now I’m using and directing what it “knows” to significantly further my goals. (And I always check the “don’t use my data to improve” box - if that does anything of course.)

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