ChatGPT – A new kind of “truthiness”

ChatGPT – A new kind of “truthiness”

I’ve been thinking a lot about ChatGPT recently, following a discussion with @sean. Sean’s position is that ChatGPT can be generally trusted, but you shouldn’t put too much faith in it. I can understand that position, but I fundamentally don’t agree with it. The trouble with ChatGPT isn’t that it’s a bullshit generator, because it isn’t, quite. Bullshit has a certain flavour. people writing bullshit will dance around the truth. They don’t post exact figures, or they avoid addressing certain…

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Reaper Bones

Reaper Bones

I’m getting myself prepared to start DMing. I’ve been looking at all the great tools available these days, and one thing I’ve been doing is starting a miniatures collection. Making this process far more affordable than I feared are Reaper Bones™ miniatures. These are plastic minis that are cheap and extremely light, so you can toss a bunch of them in a bag and not have to worry about the paint getting chipped off.Now, one issue with them is the…

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Greetings

Greetings

Just set this up, and I’m really not looking for a lot of traffic. I may decide to put some stuff here eventually. There are a bunch of places where you may have seen me about on the Internet, usually using one of these images. I’m on Mastodon as @MykDowling@tangofam.space.I’m hardly ever on Facebook as Myk Dowling.I’m on Instagram even less as MykDowling.I’m no longer on Twitter since Elon Musk destroyed what little hope there was for the platform. Seriously….

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