Anthropic's Claude asked me, at one point, what my video was about. In itself,
it is very simple. A young man on a city street puts on his helmet, gets on a motorbike,
and drives off merging with the traffic.
But our young man is not the works-out-on-protein-powder posterboy of out time.
He is thin, somewhat haggard; his clothes are chic but worn; he has known hunger ans struggle.
In effect, the seed description which made him come alive is from Dostoevsky's
Crime and Punishment(1866) the tortured student who murders an old woman for her money
he desperately needs, but then he is horrified by what he did and leaves the money behind as he
flees. In short, he is one of the most famous figures of World Literature!!
And this is how a Large Language Model would have him appear, today.(Chat GPT)
Dostoevsky himself studied to be an engineer, but ended up writing. Clearly, a gifted and
somewhat tortured person in his own right.
So if we add the subtext to the video's narrative, we end up with something more interesting.
The work is about how to use the software, but also about ctrating template descriptions that
are structured and sequenced to avoid weirdness and hallucinations. Still not sure what the
subject is driving from, or toward. Claude seemed to have views on that itself!!
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