Talk with Philosophy Bear is an experiment. I’ve written over a million words on this Substack, at least when drafts and notes are included. These range over a staggering number of subjects, because I’m happy to shoot my mouth off on almost anything. I took all the articles and drafts I’ve written on here and put them into a single text document, then created a Custom-GPT with access to all of that material. I tested it out, and even when I ask it about stuff I haven’t written on it tends to guess my views well (while sensibly hedging uncertainty).
You can interact with it using O3 (the preferred model) if you have a GPT-Plus subscription. If not, you can talk to it in GPT-4O mode, which is not as good but at least gets some of the gist across.
In addition, I’ve made a second bot: Leftwing Thinking, an Introduction. The purpose of this bot is exactly what it sounds like: to show the user what a leftwing perspective on issues looks like. Its inspiration came to me when I saw someone complain on Twitter that no one was willing to explain leftwing ideas to them, and they had no idea how they’d even begin.
Leftwing Thinking, an Introduction is more than happy to debate, explain, suggest readings, discuss, speculate, and think aloud with you at any time of day. It’s also more than happy to speak with relatives or friends who might have questions, or to answer their questions by proxy. Its job is to educate; it never gets tired or bored, and if you use it with the O3 model as recommended, it is far less sloppy than the average internet interlocutor. In fact, even if you can’t access the O3 bot because you don’t pay for GPT Plus, even if you use GPT-4O, it’s still going to be far less sloppy than 90% of people one might argue with on Twitter.
Meanwhile, if you want to be cheered up and encouraged to keep trying in this trying world- to go out and meet people- to squeeze the juice out of every salmon- to pursue the good, the beautiful, and maybe even the true, try talking to Bear. This one is not Philosophy Bear (though he is a philosopher in his own right) he’s just Bear Bear. Have a go.
Lmao I skimmed this and then clicked on Talking to Bear, thinking it was Talking to Philosophy Bear, and I was quite surprised.
The leftwing thinking bot is excellent. And also I'm having the same issue as Yosef.
Both links send me to the same bot.
Is that deliberate?
Both of them seems me to "left-wing thinking, an introduction."