I have ideas we could discuss for years and years in these daily emails, but I really like going deep on questions and curiosities that other people have. I like to think I have answers that are unpredictable, but if you are a frequent reader, you might know by now that I’m very simple and even predictable. I am just not very unique, though I try to fight this reality.
Here is how my mental model has been trained: I say yes to everything. I have very little fear. I love to laugh and be laughed at. I love my friends and family but also love to fight like lovers should. I frequently quarrel then make mad love to my Natalie. Actually it’s not always mad, sometimes it’s straight vanilla, like getting a workout in. At least twice a month I think I am a straight up pornstar in bed. I really think she likes it, but only she can say.
I fantasize about everything about the future and love everything about the past. I truly regret nothing and believe that this mindset is a principle and practice that all sentient beings must learn at some point. We should never want to edit the past, only edit in real time.
Like Kip, I love technology SOOO much. Anything that is causing change seems to have technology behind it. Embracing technology is becoming part of the change.
But I also have a belief that we could have zero technology in our life and be just as happy. This comes from the six months I spent living outside with only sleeping bag and sticks to make fire when working in the desert of Arizona 20 years ago.
I don’t vote, except for last election I wrote in my wife and checked Kanye West at the same time just for the gram. I will vote for Natalie again…she is the only person I want running this country cuz she so wise. If I could find a wiser women I would vote for her.
I have guns but have never shot them. One of them is being held hostage by a friend who wants me to come visit him, so maybe that should happen soon. Jordan, when we gonna hang and get my gun back?
Obviously, I think I am right about everything I say and do or I wouldn’t say or do it. I love the process of learning and being proven wrong (it’s very hard to prove me wrong). Our minds are very similar to LLMs that are being trained right now like ChatGPT, Gemini or Claud. We act and then weight the response from our action and keep training our minds to make the best decisions or say the best phrases. The more we train the mind and the more actions we take the better our mental model becomes. This is why age is important. We just have more compute time training as we age and keep our brains strong.
You are the same as me. If you didn’t think you were right about what you thinking and doing, you wouldn’t say or do the things you do. I think we can only operate in a reality of doing what we think is the best thing we should do, or say. If you say something that isn’t right to you, then you are deceiving yourself, and few of us here are in a state of self-deception…but it happens. It’s like getting a false response from a well trained ai. It happens, but not easily. Road rage and other similar acts are when mental models get overridden by emotion. I’ve been there, ain’t nobody right when both are emotional. I got some serious dents in my Subaru when I engaged in rage.
So if you ask me anything, I am going to try to give you the right answer…but it’s my right answer, it’s ScottGPT. I think I have a really good mental model and the results of 43 years of training my model have led to great success in my life in almost every aspect that can be measured.
Where I am weakest is on matters of the heart. I don’t have thousands of hours working in hospitals or as a therapist where you have to be emotionally available and gain loads of sympathy and empathy to get through the day. I am also not good at sleeping deeply for long hours. I also don’t know what it’s like to be a woman, even though I wear dresses and cuddle men…I don’t have periods, so I can’t speak to how other bodies work, especially a female body.
I will take the questions you ask and prepare my response for a future email to be published. You can ask to remain anonymous. You can reply to this email with questions or put it in the comment section on Substack. I hope to eventually answer every question asked of me. There is no content rating for the questions you ask. There is not off limit question. I will answer everything right that you ask. I will not filter. This could get me cancelled, divorced, or banned from Substack, but the world needs a raw model of ScottGPT that says the “things”.
Happy 4:20 and thanks for playing!
SP
What's that one thing you totally ace without even trying, but everyone else just can't seem to get right?
When did you uncover this super power?
Would you be able to teach others to master it?
What was the transition out of the Mormon church like?
Did you always feel like something didn’t add up? Even as a kid? Was the mission a pivotal moment?
Can you pinpoint a specific moment when you KNEW you were out or did you fade out and one day go - “huh, I guess I’m done.”