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This lead me down a really cool rabbit hole: "How long would it take to throw one of these between two ISS ships spaced one AU apart" Here is the conversation

This lead me down a really cool rabbit hole: "How long would it take to throw one of these between two ISS ships spaced one AU apart" Here is the conversation - I started by asking it to define terms based on the spec sheet from Neumann, so I could fully understand how to read it. Then I wanted to figure out how these little guys would fly in space. https://chat.openai.com/share/b43cca9d-0eeb-4ee0-9639-043c6280776b https://chat.openai.com/share/b43cca9d-0eeb-4ee0-9639-043c62... I learned a ton about Specific Impulse, the Rocket Equation, and it lead to GPT breaking, but we came up with the formula - but before I could arrive at specific numbers - GPT race-conditioned and hallucinated on the responses. [0], [1]... But the journey was really cool. https://i.imgur.com/o0ivPy1.png https://i.imgur.com/o0ivPy1.png https://i.imgur.com/7Y8ScUk.png https://i.imgur.com/7Y8ScUk.png*

jamiek88 3y ago
How is this ‘really cool’? It messed up and didn’t give you an answer and you have no way of knowing if the information you ‘learned’ is true if you don’t already understand ISP etc. I mean wolfram alpha would give you the answer immediately without all the bullshit conversation. It’s so weird to me how this glorified ELIZA has people so keen to tell us what GPT said in every single thread.
- samstave 3y ago
  I didnt want the answer immediately. I wanted to learn how to read the spec sheet, and be then able to infer information from future spec sheets now that I know how to read them and what the physical implications of the values mean. (thats why you'll notice I started with asking it to teach me something. What I enjoyed was this Neumann article lead me down a rabbit whole and I learned things I didnt know - it was fun and I didnt expect it. Its not cool that gpt failed - which is why I had it summarize the formula to I can try it in another session and then with gpt 4. Plus my kids love it.
  - jamiek88 3y ago
    Ah, right, I see - thanks for clarifying that it wasn't just the usual GPT paste but the process you found cool.

jamiek88 3y ago

How is this ‘really cool’? It messed up and didn’t give you an answer and you have no way of knowing if the information you ‘learned’ is true if you don’t already understand ISP etc. I mean wolfram alpha would give you the answer immediately without all the bullshit conversation. It’s so weird to me how this glorified ELIZA has people so keen to tell us what GPT said in every single thread.

samstave 3y ago
I didnt want the answer immediately. I wanted to learn how to read the spec sheet, and be then able to infer information from future spec sheets now that I know how to read them and what the physical implications of the values mean. (thats why you'll notice I started with asking it to teach me something. What I enjoyed was this Neumann article lead me down a rabbit whole and I learned things I didnt know - it was fun and I didnt expect it. Its not cool that gpt failed - which is why I had it summarize the formula to I can try it in another session and then with gpt 4. Plus my kids love it.
- jamiek88 3y ago
  Ah, right, I see - thanks for clarifying that it wasn't just the usual GPT paste but the process you found cool.