Ah. Douglas Hofstadter. Reread Gödel, Escher, Bach countless times. It must have been a forming book for me. If found Le Ton beau de Marot very moving although his ideas about AI were getting annoying. His view on translation expressed in that book is of course miles out of date.

The mind's I, metamagical themes. all wonderful.

Buuuut, I'm a strange loop and his other tirades against artificial intelligence are getting strained. Gpt-3 is not conscious. No really. We needed mr. Hofstadter to point this out to use because other people 'don’t give it input that stretches concepts beyond their breaking points, so they don’t expose the hollowness behind the scenes'.

I challenge you to play 5 seconds with GPT-3 and not be exasperated with its stupidity. It's the gems produced by this statistical monster that should be eye-openingly shocking to you.