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metalliqaz • today at 2:11 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

I agree with your assessment of people. I find that there is a lot of overlap with this old quote:

    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
AI is the perfect product for that third group.

However I disagree in that I don't want to "talk to AI" either. Any time anyone sends me AI output, I simply reply that I can prompt GPT myself, if I want; just send me the inputs.

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sfink • today at 3:25 PM

> Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Heh. It's a believable taxonomy, but it makes me suspect it could often have the corollary:

    Small minds create work; average minds do work; great minds talk about work.
tredre3 • today at 5:22 PM

> Any time anyone sends me AI output, I simply reply that I can prompt GPT myself, if I want; just send me the inputs.

In my experience their prompt is usually a verbatim copy-paste of the message I sent them, personal info and all. They simply put zero thought in it.

sodic • today at 2:34 PM

> I simply reply that I can prompt GPT myself, if I want; just send me the inputs.

I didn't quite get this, you ask them to send you their prompt? Does this disincentivize them from sending AI responses in the future?

P.S. I always found it ironic that this quote does the very thing it classifies as small-minded - discusses people :)

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