In this house we test rather than theorize

The reason that heading is in American spelling is because that was what my system said to me.

I asked it - as I said in my prompt - a “cheeky question”.

Something I hadn’t planned for in advance, and I was wondering if it would work.

I didn’t need to tell it that it needed to go actually check what would happen. It thought and said “Fair question, and in this house we test rather than theorize - let me just try it.”

I didn’t ask it to do that in those words. But if it had theorised first, that’s exactly what my next instruction would have been. We could both skip those turns, because my system already knew me - my style, my desires, and what evidence would be sufficient to answer my question.

Honestly, starting cold from fresh context, that is pretty cool. What has your system said this week that has stuck with you?

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In this house we test rather than theorize