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I've asked ChatGPT to take the derivative of an expression and the one it gave back to me was off by a minus sign. I tried to get it to calculate the expression for the height of a rocket flying vertically in constant gravity and the answer it gave me was just the rocket equation with h = instead of v = and I then got into a curious discussion with it about dimensional analysis where it just gaslit the crap out of me. If you think it is good at "analytic" tasks you haven't challenged it much.



And I’ve applied these principles of analytic augmentation to make the results of otherwise synthetic prompts more reliably truthful and in a testable and reproducible manner.

You seem to be thrashing around wildly while using these tools and I can’t imagine why anyone would be interested in whatever conclusions result from such lack of methodology.




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