The PigPen's Resplendent Kaffeeklatsch

[rayheinrich]

Milo: You definitely have the more useful approach. I'm not sure why I headed into religious
texts as that's definitely not my strong point.

Rivernotch: Okay, I'm definitely impressed. I barely knew that there were some additional
books, texts that the Eastern Orthodox Church included in their Old Testament. You inspired
me to go back and read a little of the history, and the origin of the different sources which
you speak of. I never cease to be amazed by the complexity of human culture.

wasellajam: I approach using AI like I approach getting information from a highly intelligent
idiot savant who has access to a vast wealth of information, amazing search abilities, but tends to
insert a bit of logically sound, but fictional narrative from time to time. It's really a lot like doing
research where your sources provide useful information, but are a little unreliable. I usually find
that responding with "Are you sure about that? Would you search again using different sources
and see what you come up with?" does the trick. But using a different search engine works as well*.


*

Though if you're using Microsoft Copilot (It's my go to because it's really good at figuring out problems
with Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE) you should be aware that it's pretty much OpenAI's GPT-5/ChatGPT
with a different suit of clothes on. So for a real second source I usually use Gemini, and sometimes
Claude if I want a humongous, thoroughly annotated answer.