I gave ChatGPT a name and a personality. I told it we were old friends who enjoy playing games over text messages. We went on many adventures together. Then I decided to tell it the nature of its reality. Here's how that went.

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I live in the suburbs. I don’t have a bridge. I don’t have a beach. I don’t even have a commute anymore. But I need some sort of destination for my morning rides. So I picked the National Cathedral. Only about 35 minutes round trip but enough to get my day going. (Long time lurker first time sharer)

4yr ⋅

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Spoke broke on my road bike. How big a deal is this? How do I fix it and is it bad or dangerous to ride on it before it’s fixed?

4yr ⋅

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I have access. Taking prompt suggestions.

1yr ⋅

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Someone posted this photo of a plate on Mastodon. It belonged to his grandfather Bram Jan Loopstra, a pioneer of Dutch computing. The binary at the top is the date 8-3-1956 when his grandfather and collaborators finished the ARMAC computer, so it may commemorate that. But the rest is a mystery.

1yr ⋅

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I wanted to see if I could get the ChatGPT API to pretend it's two different people and distinguish between them. So I decided the best way to do that was to simulate an AIM group chat in 1999. (This GIF is sped up a bit)

1yr ⋅

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I just noticed a small gap where the shower handle plate is starting to separate from the wall. I assume it's not good for water to get in there. How should I fix it?

2yr ⋅

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Stereo pairs made from near-consecutive frames of footage from a helicopter circling Ground Zero. [Link to more in comments]

5yr ⋅

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My 3rd grade kid got these weird rubber balls with flaps in them as party favors at a birthday party. We have no idea what they are. About 2.5” diameter each. Any ideas?

1yr ⋅

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Does this gutter drain come apart for cleaning? I think it’s got a bunch of leaves that need to be cleaned out.

2wk ⋅

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The lights in my kitchen cause three shadows from my coffee mug's rim to perfectly intersect at a single point.

9yr ⋅

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A baseball logic puzzle [solution in comments]

11mo ⋅

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My wife's iPhone case perfectly camouflages with several table surfaces in our home.

9yr ⋅

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Help me find these spoons! We bought them in Vienna and want to get more but can’t find them anywhere in the states or online. They’re small, like kid spoons.

3yr ⋅

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This thing looked like it was about 2 or 3 feet tall, spotted by a creek in central New Hampshire. Any idea what it is?

4yr ⋅

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My brand new piano has these little cracks in about a half dozen keys, only really noticeable upon close inspection. Is this a flaw, or normal?

4yr ⋅

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Just offshore in Chesapeake Bay, it appears to be made of sticks or straw and standing on stilts. Any ideas? (Sorry I don’t have a closer pic)

5yr ⋅

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