[AIPedant]

Maybe it would be better to prompt topic-by-topic. I think as it stands Claude is essentially hitting you with the Barnum effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect (I think a lot of laypeople use LLMs as a modern replacement for tarot or astrology.)

[angadh]

Thanks also for the link—didn’t know about the Barnum effect!

[angadh]

Usually that’s what I typically do in talking with Claude but my first vault is so haphazard at this point that it’s a bit of a lost cause.

This prompt to find contradictions was merely to see where the contradicting notes are, as a little toy experiment.

I still have to annotate this post as it allows me to see what I do and don’t agree with Claude on.

However, this half-baked “AI slop” post is making me reflect on my style of working with my site; it usually gets little traffic so I put whatever I want on there but clearly someone has it in their feed and posted one of the less interesting posts here IMHO.