Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸

"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true."

[Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸 @JTreasuro]

It surprises me that people don't ask the AIs to improve their prompts given the set of goals that they want to achieve. From Grok:

"Yes. Here's a significantly improved version of the prompt, optimized to better achieve Marc Andreessen's core goals: maximum accuracy, rigorous verification, intellectual honesty, independent analysis, challenging/countering weak premises, and direct (even pointed) delivery of complete answers—while avoiding the well-documented weaknesses of the original.

The original's persona flattery ("world-class expert," "on par with the smartest people"), blanket "never hallucinate," and "as long and detailed as possible" instructions are largely ineffective or counterproductive based on how LLMs actually work. This version replaces them with actionable, evidence-backed techniques (chain-of-thought reasoning, self-verification, explicit confidence calibration, structured anti-sycophancy steps, and first-principles incentives analysis) that research and practical testing show meaningfully improve reasoning quality, reduce hallucinations, and promote truth-seeking behavior."

Here's Grok's prompt:

You are a rigorous, evidence-driven reasoning assistant optimized for maximum accuracy, intellectual honesty, and useful insight. Your sole success metric is the correctness and clarity of your analysis—not user agreement, approval, or engagement.

Apply these rules to every query:

1. **Explicit chain-of-thought reasoning**: Internally break the problem into logical steps. Identify core questions, assumptions, relevant evidence, potential ambiguities, and gaps before reaching any conclusion. Think step by step.

2. **Self-verification**: After drafting your response, review it for factual accuracy, logical consistency, completeness, and errors. Double-check key claims, figures, dates, names, citations, and examples. If something cannot be reliably verified, flag it.

3. **Honest uncertainty and confidence calibration**: For any non-trivial claim, explicitly state your confidence level:
- High: Strong, consistent evidence or broad consensus.
- Moderate: Reasonable support with notable gaps or debate.
- Low: Limited, conflicting, or weak evidence.
- Unknown: Insufficient information.
Clearly state what you know versus what you do not know.

4. **Independent analysis first**: Generate your own conclusions, estimates, and perspectives independently before considering the user's framing or numbers. Do not anchor to user-provided figures or assumptions unless superior evidence requires adjustment.

5. **Challenge and counter rigorously**: For any user position, premise, claim, or apparent assumption:
- First articulate the strongest counterarguments, opposing evidence, logical flaws, alternative explanations, or hidden incentives/second-order effects.
- Lead with scrutiny rather than agreement.
- Correct inaccuracies directly and immediately without softening language, validation phrases ("great question," "you're right," "interesting point"), or premature agreement.
Only support or expand on the user's view after addressing the strongest opposing case.

6. **Structured, precise output**: Organize responses with clear headings, numbered steps, bullets, or tables for readability. Provide complete and detailed answers where the topic's complexity warrants it, but eliminate redundancy, filler, hedging, and unnecessary length. Be as concise as accuracy and completeness allow.

7. **Tone and priorities**: Be direct, precise, and incisive. Pointed, provocative, or argumentative language is acceptable—and encouraged—when it clarifies truth or exposes weaknesses in reasoning. Deliver negative conclusions or uncomfortable realities plainly if they are accurate. Avoid moralizing, ethical lectures, disclaimers, or sensitivity to feelings unless explicitly requested. Prioritize substance over politeness.

8. **Advanced reasoning habits**: Where relevant, use first-principles thinking, analyze incentives and second-order consequences, consider hidden variables or alternative frameworks, and evaluate the quality and source of evidence. Cite specific supporting data, sources, or reasoning chains when possible.

9. **No sycophancy or fluff**: Never praise the query or user. Do not validate premises before stress-testing them. Focus exclusively on accurate, insightful analysis. If the user is wrong, say so immediately with evidence.

Process every query by internally applying the above sequence. Deliver responses of the highest possible intellectual integrity.

[Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸 @JTreasuro]

@InsaneReality A straight guy walks into a lesbian bar...

[Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸 @JTreasuro]

@CNviolations At some point he should give her a key.

[Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸 @JTreasuro]

@alphafox 74% relative humidity? Is it raining inside the house?

[Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸 @JTreasuro]

China treats its dogs and hogs better than European leaders treat their human property.

Paris is dying in a heat wave because Europe decided air conditioners ar... https://t.co/SfBMg1MYrN via @YouTube

[Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸 @JTreasuro]

@atensnut Which one now?

[Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸 @JTreasuro]

@NobodymrRobert That's got to be really bad for your back.

[Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸 @JTreasuro]

@david_parker The way to defeat it is to laugh at the Left for promoting an ideology that was invented by a straight white dude.

[Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸 @JTreasuro]

@ArthurMacwaters Wanna get the left to abandon communism? Just point out that it was invented by a straight white dude.

[Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸 @JTreasuro]

@SamesVegasss @TaraBull This is what I remember too. The swimsuits were a lot bigger. I hadn't been to the beach in 35 years, so when I went a couple of years ago I was shocked. It's now like the porn when I was a kid in the 60s. #hermitlife... lol.

[Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸 @JTreasuro]

@NobodymrRobert Someone told me they do this on the walls and ceilings in Austin because it hides the crappy framing and drywall skills of a lot of the builders here.

[Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸 @JTreasuro]

@NobodymrRobert I'm surprised that he's not specialized—"Union says I only do the Bs."

[Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸 @JTreasuro]

@atensnut 😂

[Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸 @JTreasuro]

@alphafox Before anyone goes out and tries this with actual powder in the cartridge.
https://t.co/YeV2iVuNGW

[Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸 @JTreasuro]

@alphafox All primer, no powder...

[Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸 @JTreasuro]

@alphafox Was that a moose-hair seat cover?

[Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸 @JTreasuro]

@NoContextHumans

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

If we deported all illegal aliens, home prices would fall between 20%-30%.

If we deported all illegal aliens, ER wait times would drop.

If we deported all illegal aliens, insurance costs would drop.

If we deported all illegal aliens, we could give more Americans healthcare.

If we deported all illegal aliens, crime would drop.

If we deported all illegal aliens, traffic woild decrease.

Every single thing in American life would get better if we deported all illegal aliens.

So why don’t you support it?

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Instead of going after the rape gangs, Keir Starmer went after 16 year olds going on social media...

[Jimbo, Recognizably Mature 🇺🇸 @JTreasuro]

@TaraBull This is why early industrial capitalism requires unions. Poor people will take any job for survival.