book recommendations

[CNS]

If you guys haven’t logged on to ChatGPT, told it your favorite 5-10 books,and detailed why they are your favorite, then asked it to recommend books you would like based on that info, then I recommend doing so.

Also, as you read your books, talk about them with GPT, it’s really good at that. It’s like book club but without having to read The Golden Finch or The Book Thief and no one will invite you to Bible study.

Has ChatGPT read the contents of published popular fiction?

Give it a whirl.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

If you guys haven’t logged on to ChatGPT, told it your favorite 5-10 books,and detailed why they are your favorite, then asked it to recommend books you would like based on that info, then I recommend doing so.

Also, as you read your books, talk about them with GPT, it’s really good at that. It’s like book club but without having to read The Golden Finch or The Book Thief and no one will invite you to Bible study.

Has ChatGPT read the contents of published popular fiction?

Give it a whirl.

Very interesting. Thanks for the recommendation

[steve dave]

In case you are interested in doing a deep dive into Blood Meridian:

https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1856339062572904556

haha

https://x.com/CurtisRemarc/status/1859296871677563126

soak it up, stevedave. You saw this coming, didn't you.

I'm not soaking anything up. it's just a good use of the vid. I love most (not all) cormac books.

[Spracne]

If you guys haven’t logged on to ChatGPT, told it your favorite 5-10 books,and detailed why they are your favorite, then asked it to recommend books you would like based on that info, then I recommend doing so.

Also, as you read your books, talk about them with GPT, it’s really good at that. It’s like book club but without having to read The Golden Finch or The Book Thief and no one will invite you to Bible study.

Has ChatGPT read the contents of published popular fiction?

Give it a whirl.

I'm sorry, I should have been more clear. Yes or no?

[CNS]

If you guys haven’t logged on to ChatGPT, told it your favorite 5-10 books,and detailed why they are your favorite, then asked it to recommend books you would like based on that info, then I recommend doing so.

Also, as you read your books, talk about them with GPT, it’s really good at that. It’s like book club but without having to read The Golden Finch or The Book Thief and no one will invite you to Bible study.

Has ChatGPT read the contents of published popular fiction?

Give it a whirl.

I'm sorry, I should have been more clear. Yes or no?

It appears so. I did what I recommended and it gave me a list of books that it thought I would like. I have already read most of them and loved them, for the reasons it gave as to why it thinks I would.

I often discuss books with it as I read(saying things like, “ I am reading book X and I just finished chapter 3.  Detail, question, detail, question.”  It picks up right at that point and holds a conversation that makes it appear that it has read the book. When you outright ask it if it has read a book, it will tell you that it “knows about that book”.


FYI, I have done this with music with the exact same results.

It is very good at pattern recognition and I would assume our likes and dislikes are easy to nail down, especially if we give it the detail.

[Spracne]

Does it work with porn?

[CNS]

Interesting question. I don’t know the answer to that.

[Pete]

you could probably tell it porns you liked and it would give you boat loads of recommendos. Pattern recognition. If the rough ridin' thing had enough training data it would be able to predict my day pretty accurately.

[steve dave]

Interesting question. I don’t know the answer to that.

I DONT EITHER ITS A FUCKIN MYSTERY GUYS


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[Pete]

Someday AI will see you walk in and be like “hey, bet that you were thinking about jerking off, and here’s a bunch of pornographic stuff for you.”

Could sell a lot of porn that way. Or sell a lot of anything that way.

[Spracne]

It's going to be a great technological future, with the sex industry leading the way as usual.

[Pete]

It's going to be a great technological future, with the sex industry leading the way as usual.

Oh absolutely

[steve dave]

I used to absolutely dread being super old because I'd visit my great grandmother and it was terrifying. but, guys, I bet it rules when we finally age out. imagine what technology will do for us. I mean, in 100 years aging won't be a thing and I'll miss that probably but the lead up will also be pretty great. also not aging/dying is terrifying also, but I bet you can just choose to call it eventually.

[Pete]

I used to absolutely dread being super old because I'd visit my great grandmother and it was terrifying. but, guys, I bet it rules when we finally age out. imagine what technology will do for us. I mean, in 100 years aging won't be a thing and I'll miss that probably but the lead up will also be pretty great. also not aging/dying is terrifying also, but I bet you can just choose to call it eventually.

Agreed. We have front rough ridin' row seats for the most amazing time in human history.

[CNS]

Your grand kids will just rough ridin' appear in your dining room one thanksgiving and will act like you are a complete idiot for not knowing about teleportation already and how one kid in their English class has been teleporting to family vacation for 4 years now.

[steve dave]

Your grand kids will just rough ridin' appear in your dining room one thanksgiving and will act like you are a complete idiot for not knowing about teleportation already and how one kid in their English class has been teleporting to family vacation for 4 years now.

you kids will never understand watching people board as I drank my 8 oz. beer in an actual glass container. pathetic. this generation is doomed.

[star seed 7]

Someday AI will see you walk in and be like “hey, bet that you were thinking about jerking off, and here’s a bunch of pornographic stuff for you.”

Could sell a lot of porn that way. Or sell a lot of anything that way.

I think reddit already does this because my timeline gets much more porny after like 9pm

[Pete]

Someday AI will see you walk in and be like “hey, bet that you were thinking about jerking off, and here’s a bunch of pornographic stuff for you.”

Could sell a lot of porn that way. Or sell a lot of anything that way.

I think reddit already does this because my timeline gets much more porny after like 9pm

Oh yeah, they have you pegged (so to speak)

[Brock Landers]

Finishing up "Nuclear War, a Scenario"

It might need its own thread

I finished this last night.  Very bleak and depressing.   

[Kat Kid]

Reading Intermezzo by sally rooney and really enjoying it.

[michigancat]

Plowing through The Hundred Years' War on Palestine right after I finished Nickel Boys. Fun!

[Cire]

The dawn of everything is an anthropological look at the evolution of human culture and it’s very good but I’m doing audio, I don’t know if I could read it because it’s a little dense at times. Not a broad /casual audience.


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[Sandstone Outcropping]

I'm really enjoying this. Describes a hike (done in several segments) from east to west thru the Grand Canyon.  xpost Vision Quest thread.

[Stevesie60]

I started reading books again like a nerd, I blame it on becoming a parent. Anyway, finally picked up 11/22/63. I was a huge Stephen King head back when I was reading on the reg and this is really the only book he's written since like 2000 that I've heard much about. It is just, so so cool.

That being said, I finished The Shining right before this 1100 page endeavor. I'm not much of a "the book is better than the movie" guy. But for this one, I have to be. The theme and ending are so different (amongst other things) that it's sad to think I almost didn't read it since I knew the movie so well.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

I started reading books again like a nerd, I blame it on becoming a parent. Anyway, finally picked up 11/22/63. I was a huge Stephen King head back when I was reading on the reg and this is really the only book he's written since like 2000 that I've heard much about. It is just, so so cool.

That being said, I finished The Shining right before this 1100 page endeavor. I'm not much of a "the book is better than the movie" guy. But for this one, I have to be. The theme and ending are so different (amongst other things) that it's sad to think I almost didn't read it since I knew the movie so well.

One of my kids is reading this. I'll have to check it out.