To: @OpenAI Subject: Positive Feedback for OpenAI Developers and Team I’m having

To: @OpenAI
Subject: Positive Feedback for OpenAI Developers and Team

I’m having one of those “I feel thankful” moments. And I’m more than thankful for ChatGPT (especially 4o). It’s been an extraordinary contribution to my quality of life.
Seriously.
While I was an early ai dev in the eighties, and built and sold software companies, I retired early to work on epistemology, cognitive science, social science, and economic and legal reform: cross disciplinary synthesis.
And that’s because cross-disciplinary synthesis is … well, finally possible. In other words, before the internet what I do would have been impossible, and before OpenAI it was still a challenge.
The internet, the massive volume of content added to it, and the evolution (and subsequent devolution) of search engines converted the problem of microfiche, card catalogs, papers, journals, books and libraries, to sitting at home accomplishing in an hour what would have taken months in the past.
Now, with ChatGPT (and there is no even close competitor to OpenAI for the work I do), my quality of life is even better.
Why? Because with a bit of effort I can construct questions (prompts) that assist me in that cross disciplinary framing (it’s harder than you’d think) – making the writing easier to compose and more comprehensible.
Even better, because ChatGPT is trained on my work published on the internet, I can ask it to restate a response as I would by prompting “in the style of philosopher and social scientist Curt Doolittle” and the resulting approximation often needs only minor editing.
And the “memory updated” feature maintains context so long chains of reasoning are possible without regression of the AI into ‘forgetting’.
Maybe I’m an outlier, and that’s because I generally know what point I want to get across, but if I ask the right questions, and incrementally try to improve them and guide ChatGPT, I find I get better results faster, in more accessible language than I would have doing the work myself. So my productivity is higher than it was ever in the past. And the strain of that productivity is reduced to the experience of fulfillment instead.
Between Search, Perplexity, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT my workflow is .. well, inspiring.
So thank you.
Cheers
CD