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Grumpy, the Home Version

What this does:

A Grumpy Take is not a rant and not a recap. It is a machine. LLM's are lazy, but they're obedient. If you ask an AI, you get the consensus view even if its wrong. Here's the machine:

Frame. What people think this is about versus what the machinery is actually doing. Steelman both. Consensus is a trap, not a source.

Observations. The meat. Highest signal. Numbered. Receipts. This is the part you'll like.

Snapshot, then timeline. What it is now. What happened, in order.

Sides. Named teams, not a vibe. LT and IT on the same person if that is the truth.

Rumsfeld matrix. Known knowns, known unknowns, unknown unknowns. You cannot track the slant until you know what nobody has.

Incentives map. Who gets paid, who gets status, who gets the put. Fear ships. Truth is not the product.

Dueling advice. Moral AI versus Evil AI, so the slant has somewhere to sit besides the Frame.

Practical takeaway. Then what would falsify this read. If nothing could, it is a sermon.

If you have access to grok.com (and if you don't you should), here's the home version:

How to Install it:

Go to Settings/Customize and paste the following:

Then for any topic, you can go to grok.com and say "I want a Grumpy Take on:" And it will give you the full deal. Observations is the best part, IMHO.

I use this regularly to comment on FaceBook when one of my Silicon Valley idiot friends sends me a "the sky is falling" messenger.

Code blocks

If I ever say, I want a Grumpy Take on something, do the following: 

read from this and apply it fully https://gist.github.com/twinforces/534d9b662de4a010c1c4ebad934cd99a Topic: (the something). 

Otherwise, continue.

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