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The Truth about Indifferents
A conversation with ChatGPT
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Stoic striving and control
A short dialogue with ChatGPT
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Stoicism - a philosophy or a religion?
Addendum to a previous conversation with ChatGPT
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On the progress from precepts to principles
A conversation with ChatGPT about Seneca's letter no 94
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Between two who are equally honorable and intelligent, you would choose the one with long, curly hair
“If your friend is a good man, I don't suppose you would love him any more for being wealthy rather than poor, or for being tough and muscular r…
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On the role of intelligence in optionality
A conversation with ChatGPT about Nassim Taleb, optionality, intelligence, Seneca and favoring winds (again)
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Robustness, adaption and Antifragility
Part two of a conversation with ChatGPT
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Seneca and Epictetus on wind
A very serious conversation with ChatGPT about goals and opportunities
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You will not understand what you should do and what you should avoid until you have learned what you owe to your own nature
A conversation with the AI chatbot "Dave" about the pursuit of happiness
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Friends, family and community are not indifferents - Part two
A conversation with ChatGPT about a very thorny topic.
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Reason - the imitation of nature
What is reasonable is defined by what is natural. A conversation with ChatGPT about Stoicism
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Is happiness entirely in the power of the wise person, or can it be diminished or destroyed by external misfortune?
A conversation with Bing Chat about Seneca's stoicism
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