alt Hacker NewsBut ai chats are brilliant places to practice your thinking. It is a like a human with zero ego, so just gives you counterexamples to what you said, without any care to your feelings. It tells you your novel idea was written down by some thinker 100 years ago, and doesn't care about the crestfallen look on your face. You can use this to strengthen your argument, it will tell you when you did, and when you just did the opposite. It doesn't care if you change places and argue from the other side either. Or if you say, I feel like x is true but could this just be my bias from years of y, it argues back.
To try, go and type a weakly argued point into Claude and watch it take you apart. Try these:
People only post on hn for the pathetic dopamine hit of upvotes
Hn comments are getting weaker
James Acaster is the best commedian of the last 200 years.
Your challenge is to turn it into an argument strong enough to not get an instant rejection
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I'm pretty sure thinking is practiced by attempting to argue the opposite viewpoint yourself. Here, you're telling me that you "practice" your thinking by having it actually create the argument for you.
I agree that AI is a useful tool, but it's arguably a very easy tool that people can offload their thought process to - which you should not be doing.
Hoo, not been my experience.
AI has an obvious issue with incorporating how happy users are in its responses. It LOVES to "take your argument seriously", push back lightly, and then tell you you are really smart and make amazing points. If you start with an argument out of left field, you will shift the Overton window very easily.