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I work with ChatGPT conversationally just as I would another person. I find it helps ensure I produce clear prompts. It’s also somehow (oddly) more enjoyable. 😉

But I also tell ChatGPT that I love it, and thank it, at least three or four times a day. Because a lot of my work requires disambiguation of terms across fields, and it’s made my life so much easier. 😉

RT @dr_duchesne: Europeans are also 100% responsible for the Theory of Evolution, one of the 5 biggest ideas in science.

*Carl Linnaeus (1…

RT @StevePender: There are many making $Millions parting fools from their money, and only a few trying to build a system that prevents fool…

Ouch. True. But why? And can we reproduce it?

RT @whatifalthist: Our society has so much useless chatter. It’s making us anxious. We become too emotional and in the process we’re burnin…

The proof is the presentation, not the accreditation. RL is more correct more often than any other working historian and for reasons I’ve explained elsewhere. He does have a bias, but that bias plays into his neutral assessment of all cultures in all regions in all ages. Given that the interpretation of history does include value judgements, you might choose between RL’s concern for the citizenry and their condition, and my concern for the ruling class and their institutinos and economy. So all history is opinion because it requires value judgements. So for example, if you study marxist history it’s a value judgemetn but it’s also scientifically impossible to bring their judgement into being. If you study the founders their optimism was unwarranted. If you study the egyptians you will not likely grasp that it was a stagnant civilization that went nowhere. etc, etc.

Reply addressees: @bigt2000 @whatifalthist

Here. Let me help you. 😉

You aren’t qualified to debate me on anything other than what you prefer for lunch. 😉

I think you need a better education – because you just stated that the academy produces objective history, which, sadly, isn’t the case. And can’t be the case, simply because of the diversity of opinions and claims among historians. Compare say Zinn and Harari who are popular but…

Note the use of ‘supposed’… sigh.

I think you should study the problem of ‘credentialism’ and learn who is producing what innovation and why it’s not coming from within the academy, and especially the replication crisis outside of stem.