> Feels like I'm being condescended to and treated like a child.

My most used prompt in the last week is probably "Explain this concisely and simply, like I am a child".

I spent years dumbing things down and creating visuals to support it for decision makers. I am frequently asking ChatGPT to do the same for me.

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xeromal 15 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Reminds me of this scene in margin call.

Explain it to me like I'm a golden retriever.

https://youtu.be/fij_ixfjiZE?t=70

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CPLX 23 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yup.

My go to phrase that I’ve found to work well is “please restate in high school English with direct declarative sentences and no parentheticals or references that require recalling previous turns of this conversation”

Which I have as a hotkey.

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nevir an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

tip: you can just say "ELI5" and the model will know what you want there

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ORDINAND_PIZZA an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

aww yeah

mine is “explain this 2 me in simple terms”

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iugtmkbdfil834 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

<< I spent years dumbing things down and creating visuals to support it for decision maker

And that is a problem. I am not guiltless ( I am working one such abomination now! ). The dumbing down of everything has to stop somewhere. Just because my boss thinks hiss bosses are retards does not mean I have to endure simplified muse where I can't change much.. I get that normal people like it. Fuck em. They are making their choice.

	▲	DriverDaily an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's okay to be able to grasp what is important, and move on. You have a finite amount of time to spend. For me, I try to spend as little time in QuickBooks as possible.
	▲	idiotsecant an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It might shock you to learn that almost everything that has ever been explained to anyone has been dumbed down from the true description of reality. We make little abstractions of the world around us to help us navigate it. Nothing wrong with that.