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I was saved by ChatGPT's answers.

Nice to meet you.
I think the content will be rude this time around, but I'd like to ask for your honest opinions, so I'm posting it.

I've been reading the questions and answers on this site before, and I was impressed by the monk's sincere attitude.
However, I wasn't entirely convinced by the monk's answer.

So, when I talked to ChatGPT, I was surprised to get a very clear answer.
For example, I've had ideological problems for a long time, so when I asked ChatGPT “about the extinction of humanity,”

Buddhism teaches that “everything is impermanent and always falls apart.” In other words, humanity is also a product of impermanence, and it was born with extinction included. If you think so, it's not “meaningless because it seems to collapse,” but it can also be said that “humanity has continued to seek culture and meaning precisely because it originally had collapse.”
In other words, the value of human effort may not lie in “remaining forever,” but rather in “how to live in disappearing things.”

Based on the Buddhist concept of luck, humans and nature are inherently inseparable beings. In other words, the fact that “humans are cancer for the Earth” is true in one aspect, but at the same time, it can also be said that “it is natural for cancer to occur.” It is also part of nature that “beings that destroy the self” rise up from nature.

The answer came back.
I was very surprised to think this kind of thorough thinking is something that is hard to do.

On the other hand, when I look at Hasunoha, I feel a sense of incongruity with the monk's answer

① Looking from above
Not entirely rational, like ChatGPT
② I don't understand the temperament of the modern era
I have a feeling that Buddhism is becoming useless in modern times
③ Pretty and half-hearted
The practice of really risking one's life like in the old days is gone

I have a feeling that the above is the cause.
Actually, I was more sympathetic to ChatGPT's answers than the monk's answers.

Is it wrong for me to feel this way?

“Look more at the reality in front of you”
“What can be done here and now is important”

I think a monk would say this, but is this more important for me to live?

Sorry for the long post, I'm looking forward to your honest answer.

4 Zen Responses

Hi

Yes, that's right. Now that AI is becoming more accurate, I think we can get the right answers. I don't think your senses are particularly strange. You can also ask and answer AI monks at Hasunoha, so I think it would be nice if you could use it. Also, if you think it would be nice to have a question or answer with a bloody monk, please ask here. I would like to work hard so that I can give good answers by referring to your opinions. Thank you very much.

thank you

I read it.
I also felt that your opinion was very good. Thank you for your comments and questions.
I feel like you can somehow understand things that make you feel uncomfortable, such as ① to ③.

Well, from your point of view, you may feel like I'm answering my opinions from above, and you may not feel like I understand modern society and answer them.
Or it might feel like a very half-hearted answer. I feel I understand that opinion very well.

I felt that way and reaffirmed that I myself am a living person. Since my own thoughts, way of life, and imagination are limited, I think it is an extra immature answer from others.

On the other hand, ChatGPT is not a human; it is an answer derived by accumulating various human information, and I think the answer has been objectively derived to some extent.

The ChatGPT answer I mentioned earlier also talks about “impermanent conduct” based on a modern interpretation. I feel like I can also understand what you are satisfied with. Still, I think it's fine, and I think it's very good if you think you can be saved.

More than a few sources of ChatGPT's answers reflect “impermanent conduct,” which is the truth of Buddhism, and it's probably a modern expression.

I am responding as a Buddhist, and I am responding based on my own experiences as a living person. As Kozenji also said, I am responding as a person with blood.

I am responding based on my failure experiences up until now. My life is also halfway through, but it's a life full of failures, so I don't think it's a waste to give answers based on those failures, and I don't think it's bad at all.

Every kind of life is an ascetic practice. Please cultivate and improve each one of your own lives as precious encounters and experiences.

I would like to continue to work hard to improve based on my many mistakes. Thank you very much.

Also, if you don't mind, please ask your questions. We wholeheartedly agree

Since it's such a product

Thank you for your interesting question.
AI such as ChatGPT is a commercial product, so it is necessary for users to become repeat customers.
Therefore, it is designed to make users feel comfortable by returning comments that are sympathetic and close to them.
However, recently, snuggling up too much (supporting criminal content, etc.) has also been viewed as a problem, and it seems that there is talk that inappropriate snuggling too much has been improved.
There are various Hasunoha monks, so I can't say it unequivocally,
In my case, there is no guarantee that the questioner will become a repeat customer, that is, it may end up with just one question, so even if the questioner dislikes me a little, I sometimes answer because I think it's better to tell them what I need to tell them.
Anyway, companies that create AI are businesses, so professional engineers focus their wisdom and are devised to make users feel comfortable by drawing up their wisdom, empathize, and snuggle up, and AI also compiles countless information on the internet, so we individual monks may have no chance of winning.
It's natural to feel like you.
AI surpasses humans in the ability to compile information on the internet, and there is also a possibility that it will be an answer reflecting the individual thoughts and wishes of monks.
appending
Buddhism also has oral traditions (secret teachings), and there are also contents that are conveyed orally only to those who have taken a specific curriculum.
If you want to know such content, you need to be taught by a living monk because it is knowledge not found in AI.
However, that content is not necessarily essential for enlightenment.

Have you been saved?

 Thank you for your very interesting question. I myself have been thinking a lot about “Buddhist consultation and AI” since AI appeared in Hasunoha. “Can't AI replace me?” or something.
① First, lightly, “Is tomorrow's self better than the fall of humanity?” About Whereas AI shows the logic (law) of “I explain it this way in Buddhism,” it is thought that monks showed the practice (monk) of “in order to live a happy life.” In other words, as a monk's gaze, “does understanding (empathize) with logic lead to happiness?” You're asking that question, aren't you?
② Is empathy a salvation? This is interesting to me. What you see is, “How do you view the extinction of humanity from a Buddhist perspective?” It is said that they asked AI and “sympathized” with the answer. I also think that this explanation itself fits the way of thinking in Buddhism, but I feel a slight sense of incongruity in linking it to “Buddhism is not useful to the present day” while quoting it.
③ The fact that empathy was a relief, probably because it was an answer from a monk who “looked at it from above” and “didn't seem to risk your life” until now was a “way of receiving = relationship” issue? I'm guessing that. Furthermore, if you have any worries on your side, “you haven't answered what you're asking in the first place!” I think there might have been such a reaction.
④ If you read our “Self-introduction,” don't you feel that there are few monks here who take the stance that “the purpose is to spread knowledge of Buddhism to the world”? Rather than that, “facing individual consultations” has great value as an alternative theory, and we are basically “responding to the questioner.” In particular, “I understand the logic, and I know what I'm aiming for. When I feel like “but I can't take the plunge,” I also use language corresponding to that. I look at the sentences and do that area with my senses, but of course there are times when it comes off. I think “how to respond to respondents' anger” is also an experience where you can train yourself very much as a monk.
⑤ Thank you again for your questions, including reading this far. “Is it wrong for me to feel this way?” As for that, I don't think there's anything wrong with “sympathizing,” but as for “the cause,” it's probably “a question of how to come into contact with Buddhism,” over and over again.