Personal story. I was denied non-essential treatment by my insurer. I went home ready to write a screed about how the insurer was denying life-changing treatment and how they should change their position based purely on cost-benefits, etc. etc. Before I hit send, I inserted my argument into an LLM and asked it to take the opposing side. The LLM didn't convince me otherwise, but it did moderate my position enough that I didn't send my possibly embarrassing rant.
This is perhaps a relatively safe(r) application of LLMs and a way to address social blind spots....
"In my late twenties, I'm supposed to be in my prime. It's physically all downhill from here, and brains are starting to degrade permanently. I've wasted my best chances at happiness, learning, and changing the world."
Well... but it's a numbers game, right? At least as far as learning and changing the world are concerned, the probability is likely to continue going up for at least a few decades. And if finding happiness is positively correlated with the former two, then great, you get that for free. If not, forget about the former two and go find happiness... (read more)