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Interview with a transformer II

In which I ask GPT-2 the questions from the Proust Questionnaire

John Ohno
15 min readAug 23, 2019

My favorite virtue and most treasured of all things is patience. I have never been much of an idealist. If I had a choice, I’d rather see a car burning down than a person who would do what’s in his interest.”

The real world offers many things to see — and, if you can manage to take the time and risk to do them right, you often find them, and you come away with new ideas about the world.

My favorite virtue is patience. I have never been much of an idealist. If I had a choice, I’d rather see a car burning down than a person who would do what’s in his interest. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The point is to have patience and take advantage of opportunities wherever they present themselves. You can make an argument that it’s not enough to be an idealist. Even if you succeed in creating a world of your own, that still leaves behind you a lot of people who’ve never made it any farther in their own lives — people who’ve never been able to make progress. How

The principal aspect of my personality is my mind: my brain. I work from dawn until dusk, or sometimes even late at night, and I do it all over the world: sometimes it’s in a hospital, sometimes in a field hospital, sometimes in a private hospital, sometimes in some big hospital in Chicago. As for my body, I’m the most physically active man in the world: sometimes I spend all night in the gym, sometimes I swim…

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John Ohno
John Ohno

Written by John Ohno

Resident hypertext crank. Author of Big and Small Computing: Trajectories for the Future of Software. http://www.lord-enki.net

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