I had a conversation with Claude today about something I was researching for work. I tried my best to phrase questions neutrally and not bias the responses, and it pretty much re-derived a lot of the things I’ve been trying to tell my coworkers and clients for years. I’d always wondered if maybe I was crazy and missing the obvious counterarguments, but now I wonder that a little less. I still don’t expect it to really convince anyone who wasn’t already on board.
It reminded me a bit of the old joke about the math professor who says, “This is trivial to prove.” A student asks, “Is it really trivial?” The professor stops lecturing and starts scribbling notes. Half an hour later he looks up and says, “Yes, it’s trivial,” then moves on with the rest of the planned lecture.
I’m very much looking forward to when I can upload this kind of transcript to something like Deep Research and say “Write a much more detailed report with lots of references about all of these questions. Also make me a slide deck and talk track to present it to these different kinds of audiences.”
I had a conversation with Claude today about something I was researching for work. I tried my best to phrase questions neutrally and not bias the responses, and it pretty much re-derived a lot of the things I’ve been trying to tell my coworkers and clients for years. I’d always wondered if maybe I was crazy and missing the obvious counterarguments, but now I wonder that a little less. I still don’t expect it to really convince anyone who wasn’t already on board.
It reminded me a bit of the old joke about the math professor who says, “This is trivial to prove.” A student asks, “Is it really trivial?” The professor stops lecturing and starts scribbling notes. Half an hour later he looks up and says, “Yes, it’s trivial,” then moves on with the rest of the planned lecture.
I’m very much looking forward to when I can upload this kind of transcript to something like Deep Research and say “Write a much more detailed report with lots of references about all of these questions. Also make me a slide deck and talk track to present it to these different kinds of audiences.”