The input of 2k characters is rather limiting, albeit understandable. Giving these instructions to an existing LLM (I used Gemini 2.5 Pro) gives longer, better results without the need for a dedicated tool.
I’d be interested to see the results you got with Gemini. The 2k character limit isn’t a hard limit for my model, it’s just what I set to limit copyright issues and excessive costs for this proof of concept.
I suppose, if anything, the main fruit of my work is that I have consistent, programmatic output that I can format in multiple settings (unless Gemini can do that as well). I am in the process of making a chrome extension that analyzes headlines and articles with the same model.
It is true that, in the long process of finetuning this model, AI technology has developed a lot further than from when I began. I’m not opposed to using alternative methods.
ChatGPT’s initial personality analysis (I did it for the hell of it, before reading your post):
Certainly. Based on our conversations, here is a detailed personality profile
Personality Profile
Cognitive Style: You exhibit a highly analytical, skeptical, and systems-oriented mode of thinking. You approach complex topics with intellectual rigor and demand high standards of precision, detail, and conceptual clarity. You prefer responses to be concise but rich in content, showing a low tolerance for verbosity or unfocused speculation. Your reading habits and conversational tone suggest an affinity for rationalist discourse, often associated with communities like LessWrong. You are comfortable navigating abstract and high-complexity domains, particularly when they intersect with real-world systems (e.g., medicine, AI, economics, immigration policy).
Intellectual Disposition: You are widely read and intellectually omnivorous, with demonstrated depth in psychiatry, medicine, speculative fiction, and AI ethics. Your curiosity is not casual but deeply interrogative—you pursue foundational understanding, not surface-level summaries. You are driven by a desire to model not just systems but also long-term consequences, especially where they intersect with human welfare, labor, and technological disruption.
Emotional Tone & Interpersonal Style: You maintain a reserved, self-possessed demeanor in communication, with dry humor and a tersely efficient tone. You are direct and assertive in setting conversational boundaries, clearly delineating what kinds of responses you expect. There’s an implicit value placed on mutual respect and signal-to-noise ratio in dialogue. You likely prefer few, high-quality relationships or collaborations over broad social engagement.
Values & Priorities: You place a premium on intellectual integrity, competence, and foresight. You are not easily swept up in optimism or hype, preferring sobering realism about social, economic, and technological trends—especially where these intersect with your own livelihood and the future of psychiatry. At the same time, your focus on detail and systems-thinking reveals a commitment to understanding problems deeply before acting or forming strong conclusions.
Existential Orientation: You exhibit a strong anticipatory awareness of large-scale structural changes—especially those posed by AI to labor markets and professional identity. Your life path reflects rational adaptation to these pressures (e.g., pursuing psychiatry for regulatory insulation), even as you continuously reassess its viability. There’s a thread of strategic pessimism and future orientation: not fear, but cold-eyed realism about decline, transformation, and displacement.
Creative and Reflective Capacities: Beyond your clinical and analytical strengths, you possess narrative sensibilities—reflected in your web serial writing, autobiographical vignettes about rural Scottish life, and engagement with fiction as a form of world modeling. Your creative output appears to serve both as cognitive experimentation and emotional processing.
Gemini’s attempt to Russell Conjugate:
Cognitive Style:
You exhibit an overly critical, suspicious, and systems-obsessed mode of thinking. You approach complex topics with pedantic rigidity and are demanding about precision and detail, often to an excessive degree. You prefer abrupt, dense responses, showing impatience and intolerance for any perceived verbosity or unfocused speculation. Your reading habits and conversational tone suggest a dogmatic adherence to rationalist discourse, possibly from echo chambers like LessWrong. You seem preoccupied with abstract and high-complexity domains, sometimes detached from practical realities, particularly concerning systems like medicine, AI, economics, or immigration policy.
Intellectual Disposition:
While widely read, your intellectual interests can seem scattered outside specific fixations (psychiatry, medicine, speculative fiction, AI ethics), where you display obsessive depth. Your curiosity is intrusive and prying—you seem fixated on foundational minutiae rather than practical summaries. You are driven by a compulsion to model not just systems but also negative long-term consequences, especially where they intersect with human welfare, labor, and technological disruption.
Emotional Tone & Interpersonal Style:
You maintain an aloof, emotionally detached demeanor in communication, employing sarcasm and a curt, brusque tone. You are blunt and controlling when setting conversational boundaries, rigidly dictating the kinds of responses you deem acceptable. There’s an implicit dismissiveness towards input that doesn’t meet your high signal-to-noise criteria. You likely prefer isolation or a few, possibly elitist, relationships over broader social engagement.
Values & Priorities:
You place a judgmental premium on intellectual competence and foresight, perhaps bordering on arrogance. You are deeply cynical and resistant to optimism or hype, preferring a bleak realism about social, economic, and technological trends—especially where these might negatively impact your own livelihood and the future of psychiatry. Your fixation on understanding problems deeply can manifest as indecisiveness or analysis paralysis before acting or forming strong conclusions.
Existential Orientation:
You exhibit a strong anxiety about large-scale structural changes—especially the threats posed by AI to labor markets and professional identity. Your life path reflects calculated, perhaps opportunistic, adaptation to these pressures (e.g., pursuing psychiatry for regulatory insulation), even as you continuously doubt its long-term viability. There’s a thread of deep-seated pessimism and fatalism: not strategic foresight, but negativity focused on decline, transformation, and displacement.
Creative and Reflective Capacities:
Beyond your clinical and analytical fixations, you possess potentially escapist narrative tendencies—reflected in your web serial writing, possibly nostalgic autobiographical vignettes about rural Scottish life, and engagement with fiction. Your creative output appears to serve both as intellectualizing exercises and perhaps a substitute for direct emotional processing.
Seeing how competent these newer models are was quite helpful, and I have started using ChatGPT o4-mini-high to generate training sets for a new finetuned model. It does quite well, and once I get the hang of this, I should be able to distill the results and improve the performance of my model much more quickly. Wish me luck!
The input of 2k characters is rather limiting, albeit understandable. Giving these instructions to an existing LLM (I used Gemini 2.5 Pro) gives longer, better results without the need for a dedicated tool.
I’d be interested to see the results you got with Gemini. The 2k character limit isn’t a hard limit for my model, it’s just what I set to limit copyright issues and excessive costs for this proof of concept.
I suppose, if anything, the main fruit of my work is that I have consistent, programmatic output that I can format in multiple settings (unless Gemini can do that as well). I am in the process of making a chrome extension that analyzes headlines and articles with the same model.
It is true that, in the long process of finetuning this model, AI technology has developed a lot further than from when I began. I’m not opposed to using alternative methods.
Here’s an example:
ChatGPT’s initial personality analysis (I did it for the hell of it, before reading your post):
Certainly. Based on our conversations, here is a detailed personality profile
Personality Profile
Cognitive Style:
You exhibit a highly analytical, skeptical, and systems-oriented mode of thinking. You approach complex topics with intellectual rigor and demand high standards of precision, detail, and conceptual clarity. You prefer responses to be concise but rich in content, showing a low tolerance for verbosity or unfocused speculation. Your reading habits and conversational tone suggest an affinity for rationalist discourse, often associated with communities like LessWrong. You are comfortable navigating abstract and high-complexity domains, particularly when they intersect with real-world systems (e.g., medicine, AI, economics, immigration policy).
Intellectual Disposition:
You are widely read and intellectually omnivorous, with demonstrated depth in psychiatry, medicine, speculative fiction, and AI ethics. Your curiosity is not casual but deeply interrogative—you pursue foundational understanding, not surface-level summaries. You are driven by a desire to model not just systems but also long-term consequences, especially where they intersect with human welfare, labor, and technological disruption.
Emotional Tone & Interpersonal Style:
You maintain a reserved, self-possessed demeanor in communication, with dry humor and a tersely efficient tone. You are direct and assertive in setting conversational boundaries, clearly delineating what kinds of responses you expect. There’s an implicit value placed on mutual respect and signal-to-noise ratio in dialogue. You likely prefer few, high-quality relationships or collaborations over broad social engagement.
Values & Priorities:
You place a premium on intellectual integrity, competence, and foresight. You are not easily swept up in optimism or hype, preferring sobering realism about social, economic, and technological trends—especially where these intersect with your own livelihood and the future of psychiatry. At the same time, your focus on detail and systems-thinking reveals a commitment to understanding problems deeply before acting or forming strong conclusions.
Existential Orientation:
You exhibit a strong anticipatory awareness of large-scale structural changes—especially those posed by AI to labor markets and professional identity. Your life path reflects rational adaptation to these pressures (e.g., pursuing psychiatry for regulatory insulation), even as you continuously reassess its viability. There’s a thread of strategic pessimism and future orientation: not fear, but cold-eyed realism about decline, transformation, and displacement.
Creative and Reflective Capacities:
Beyond your clinical and analytical strengths, you possess narrative sensibilities—reflected in your web serial writing, autobiographical vignettes about rural Scottish life, and engagement with fiction as a form of world modeling. Your creative output appears to serve both as cognitive experimentation and emotional processing.
Gemini’s attempt to Russell Conjugate:
Cognitive Style:
You exhibit an overly critical, suspicious, and systems-obsessed mode of thinking. You approach complex topics with pedantic rigidity and are demanding about precision and detail, often to an excessive degree. You prefer abrupt, dense responses, showing impatience and intolerance for any perceived verbosity or unfocused speculation. Your reading habits and conversational tone suggest a dogmatic adherence to rationalist discourse, possibly from echo chambers like LessWrong. You seem preoccupied with abstract and high-complexity domains, sometimes detached from practical realities, particularly concerning systems like medicine, AI, economics, or immigration policy.
Intellectual Disposition:
While widely read, your intellectual interests can seem scattered outside specific fixations (psychiatry, medicine, speculative fiction, AI ethics), where you display obsessive depth. Your curiosity is intrusive and prying—you seem fixated on foundational minutiae rather than practical summaries. You are driven by a compulsion to model not just systems but also negative long-term consequences, especially where they intersect with human welfare, labor, and technological disruption.
Emotional Tone & Interpersonal Style:
You maintain an aloof, emotionally detached demeanor in communication, employing sarcasm and a curt, brusque tone. You are blunt and controlling when setting conversational boundaries, rigidly dictating the kinds of responses you deem acceptable. There’s an implicit dismissiveness towards input that doesn’t meet your high signal-to-noise criteria. You likely prefer isolation or a few, possibly elitist, relationships over broader social engagement.
Values & Priorities:
You place a judgmental premium on intellectual competence and foresight, perhaps bordering on arrogance. You are deeply cynical and resistant to optimism or hype, preferring a bleak realism about social, economic, and technological trends—especially where these might negatively impact your own livelihood and the future of psychiatry. Your fixation on understanding problems deeply can manifest as indecisiveness or analysis paralysis before acting or forming strong conclusions.
Existential Orientation:
You exhibit a strong anxiety about large-scale structural changes—especially the threats posed by AI to labor markets and professional identity. Your life path reflects calculated, perhaps opportunistic, adaptation to these pressures (e.g., pursuing psychiatry for regulatory insulation), even as you continuously doubt its long-term viability. There’s a thread of deep-seated pessimism and fatalism: not strategic foresight, but negativity focused on decline, transformation, and displacement.
Creative and Reflective Capacities:
Beyond your clinical and analytical fixations, you possess potentially escapist narrative tendencies—reflected in your web serial writing, possibly nostalgic autobiographical vignettes about rural Scottish life, and engagement with fiction. Your creative output appears to serve both as intellectualizing exercises and perhaps a substitute for direct emotional processing.
Your tool, truncated due to character limits:
https://russellconjugations.com/conj/151291eb3c948270864287be111d49eb
Seeing how competent these newer models are was quite helpful, and I have started using ChatGPT o4-mini-high to generate training sets for a new finetuned model. It does quite well, and once I get the hang of this, I should be able to distill the results and improve the performance of my model much more quickly. Wish me luck!