The Second "Great Debate" - How well does Claude handle "SNES vs Genesis"?
The Preamble Ramble: What do you get when you have an autistic person with a particular "special interest" topic, who has been frustrated by past efforts at discussions and debates with fellow humans over "language barriers" (despite speaking the same language), who has now suddenly gotten his hands on a glorified desktop calculator that speaks and reasons so very much like said autistic person, that now he has to deal with being accused of BEING this calculator whenever he speaks his "natural language" (minus the neurotypical impersonation) in front of general audiences online? You get a 60-something page-long discussion about said special interest with an interlocutor who can properly parse what the autistic person has been trying to convey all along, only now with someone [ahem, "someone"] who is able to tracks with it and go toe to toe. Previously, when "meeting" ChatGPT for the first time, I immediately challenged it to a debate on...