Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) “Earlier today after a chat I was looking for books on what the founding fathers” — TopicDigg

Earlier today after a chat I was looking for books on what the founding fathers would have thought about today's America. I didn't find a great match but it occurred to me that it could be an interesting test of the o1-pro sub I'm paying $200/mo for. So: Founding fathers on today's America A treatise by o1-pro, prompted iteratively: 1. generate a good outline of the treatise and the chapters 2. generate all chapters in turn 3. generate final "summary" chapter, put all previous chapters in the context Chapter 1: The Constitutional Framework Under Modern Strain Chapter 2: Liberty and Surveillance in the Digital Age Chapter 3: Political Parties and the Founders’ Intentions Chapter 4: Economic Power and Corporate Influence Chapter 5: Equality and Civil Rights Beyond the Eighteenth Century Chapter 6: Education, Citizenship, and Civic Virtue Chapter 7: Religion, Secularism, and the Public Sphere Chapter 8: Military, Foreign Policy, and America’s Global Role Chapter 9: Technological Advancement and Democratic Discourse Chapter 10: Renewing the American Experiment Elevenlabs for audio. Veed for subs and video. Ideogram for thumbnail. Available as either text on my blog site, or as the 1h21m listen (see links in the reply). I read the full thing and I thought it was pretty good and at least on a high level mildly interesting and insightful, but I'm not versed enough to fully judge it as "great", "not bad" or "slop", or spot hallucinations (if any) maybe others can help as a kind of test of the o1-pro LLM capability. Slop or not? In any case, it's the first time I thought to generate a custom "book" for myself on a topic I wanted to think more about and couldn't quite find the right book on, partly inspired by the progress in LLM capabilities. What you see here is the "out of the box" naive attempt, possibly it's a lot better to e.g. attach a lot of supporting materials (founding documents or articles) into the context window, etc.