Claude #2


I had Tammy pull down Claude #1.

Claude #1 was meant to be the start of a systematic discussion of my philosophical approach to audio, the components in my system, some of which go back 45 years and are 68 years old (recycling/refurbishing what works), how everything works synergistically in the hopes that would elicit observations on the same and shares from others about the templates they used in approaching the construction of their systems. I was going to have continued the discussion over the course of a dozen posts on discrete topics within the framework. Information that some of you might have found useful. I was looking forward to this. 

Instead, some of you hijacked that first post for personal Luddite-like rants about the evils of AI. AI is the very tool I used over the last week to answer questions I have not been able to get answered in those 45 years in even a quarter of the detail and/or leads that AI provided.

So, we end with Claude 2 instead of 12. 

This was so absurd and at the age of 70, I just don’t have the time for this nonsense. So, I am done with audiogon. I’m sure that makes some of you happy: the conversation sandbox is returned to your preferred configuration, whatever that may be. 

I will instead post my thoughts at theaudioatticvinylsundays.com. Eventually. I am starting a substack and that has my priority right now. 

I will miss some of you, who are thoughtful, intelligent and kind. You know who you are. 

adios. 

unreceivedogma

Showing 1 response by sns

Part of interacting with real live humans is there high likelihood of misunderstandings and or off topic responses. I realize it can be frustrating but one learns to cope and/or accept. On the other hand one can choose withdrawal, while this may alleviate the frustration, human discourse even the times when it goes off course may provoke new avenues of thought. I perceive many posts on social media as stream of consciousness thoughts, whatever at the top of mind gets posted, deep thoughts require time and effort, both can be in short supply in the context of social media.

 

I presume @unreceivedogma original post on Claude #1 which entailed a long and thorough post as to how AI had benefited him was both meaningful and impactful. At one point he mentioned something to the effect he had learned more about certain audio subject via AI than from previous human interactions. Perhaps this true in this particular instance, AI's specialty at this point in time is collating human knowledge into one concise read, the benefits are clear to see. So we have this 'relatively' long and winding post espousing multiple benefits of AI for a single user in his audio journey. I suspect some of us, and I know for myself AI had very little if anything to offer in the way of benefit in my audio journey, rather it was direct human interaction and human experiences with others that informed me. So now I see this post which offers another example of AI replacing human interaction and experience.

 

I'm not a Luddite and I don't appreciate being called one, I'm all for innovation but innovation without qualitative judgement is extremely flawed, one should perceive both the costs and benefits. I realize OP wasn't intended to go in this direction but humans do have critical thinking faculties, this to be expected. Perhaps interaction with AI will come to be preferred over time, one can easily find benefit without the hassles of human interaction.