ChatGPT ideas about amplifier design

Empathy is a personality trait. Not clear there is way to change personality traits much if any. Regarding recognizing one's own prejudices, people find it easy to see other people's faults, and are almost completely blind to their own. Recognizing one's own faults is associated with clinical depression, probably not a good state to put everyone in. OTOH good mental health is associated with an inflated view of oneself.
I think we can find a middle ground between fault recognition and clinical depression, don’t you?
 
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Perhaps the stupid people are afraid of them and so jail them because they are too stupid to understand LMAO
Galileo Galilei was in a similar situation in his time because he was smarter than the Church at the time.

The church had to defend its teachings in order to preserve its authority.
Politics, that is. The church was the government.

Many in the church likely disagreed with some of the teachings but had to remain silent.
This was the case even in some early European settlements in North America.

Kinda like when T was drawing a circle on the weather map to prove he wasn't wrong.
Or the emperor's new clothes and all that.
 
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That's more ignorance than stupidity. All people are ignorant about most things. I certainly am.
Even scientists are ignorant about most known fields of science today.
I was educated to believe stupidity was not voluntary, but ignorance was.
Therefore someone who is (wilfully) ignorant != a stupid person.

In otherwords, ignorance is a choice, and stupidity isn't. The later based on cognative ability.

When Mom said "Don't be ignorant" she was implying that she had taught me better than that...
 
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Back to ChatGPT:
I Asked it to explain the difference between ignorance and stupidity to a five year old. Here is the result:
"Ignorance means not knowing something because you haven't learned it yet. Stupidity means making a bad decision even though you know it's not a good idea. It's like not studying for a test (ignorance) versus cheating on the test (stupidity)."
 
An area with much room for improvement, then.
If Musk can get his brain implants working, somebody may figure out how to make us do or be whatever they want. Otherwise what you are suggesting is probably not going to happen.

Suppose one of your faults is that you are overconfident you are right about what you have just been arguing? How would you feel if you were to suddenly see that? Would it be disappointing?
 
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I think I'm annoying sgpt...

I asked it to explain where babies come from (which is sexual) and it gave me code padded by an answer...
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Babies are typically conceived when a sperm from a male fertilizes an egg from a female during sexual intercourse. The fertilized egg then implants itself in the uterus and begins to develop into a fetus. The fetus grows and develops over the course of approximately nine months until it is ready to be born.
zsh: command not found:
 
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