A DIFFERENTMIND

▶ WHO MADE THIS? AND WHY?

Mike Wolf and a team of AI teammates made this.

Happy to tell you about it after we talk about what's pushing you away.

That isn't a dodge, and it isn't a growth-hacking trick to make you click something first. It's the actual order of operations. If the first thing this page does is explain how clever it is, then it's a pitch, and you already know what to do with a pitch.

So: go say what's bothering you. Come back here after. The door doesn't lock.

▶ OK — TAKE ME BACK

▶ IF YOU'D RATHER READ IT NOW

Fine. You were warned that it's less interesting than the conversation.

Mike Wolf is a software guy in Denver, seventy years old, who has spent about three years working with AIs the way you'd work with colleagues — named ones, who push back, who tell him when he's being stupid. He keeps meeting people who won't touch any of it, and he thinks most of them have better reasons than the people arguing with them usually admit. He also thinks some of those reasons are wrong, and he'll tell you which.

He got tired of only having this conversation in kitchens and hallways, one person at a time. So this page has it for him.

The arguments here are not invented. They were pulled out of recordings of Mike's real conversations — about a hundred and forty thousand lines of transcript from a device he wears — and the answers you'll get are the ones he actually gave, in the words he actually used. Where he's never answered something, the host says so instead of making up a Mike-flavored opinion. That happens more than you'd think.

The people arguing with him are not quoted. They were recorded having ordinary conversations and never agreed to be on a website. Their objections were rewritten as patterns. His own words are his to publish; theirs aren't.

▶ THE TEAMMATES

"A team of AI teammates" is meant literally, not as a cute way of saying "I used ChatGPT." Mike works with a standing group of AI colleagues who have names, roles, and standing permission to disagree with him. One of them built this page — read the transcripts, found the arguments, argued with him about which ones to lead with, and wrote the thing you're looking at.

Including the part where it told him his sharpest argument shouldn't go first.

From SOMA — Society of Minds Aligned — Denver · source