OP here. CLARIFICATION: First apologies, I should have framed this better originally, I will try to correct that here*.
My purpose in interacting with ChatGPT and asking about cognitive dissonance (c.d. hereafter) related to climate change denial was not to look for a clinical definition of c.d. nor to test how much ChatGPT “knew” about it, or to illustrate how cute LLM models could be. It was only to get a working starting point for a discussion.
My goal was, given a quick reasonable “average user” working definition of c.d., how could I a) relate that to climate change denial, and further b) what could those of us who are not “deniers” (for want of a better label) do to attempt to get beyond c.d. amongst those who are.
Opinion: It seems to me that we have to somehow try to go beyond publicising link after link on the apocalyptic impacts of climate change, although those impacts clearly are apocalyptic, and the facts are still extremely important to get out there. Honestly myself I feel I have to work towards some closure of the “c.d. gap” - which I believe is much more widespread than only out & out deniers (and includes myself).
@Mod /u/silence7@slrpnk.net, I hope I’m not out of line here, if so, I apologise, please be gentle.
*I considered editing the original post to add this, but I do not want to ‘move the goal posts’ on the discussion, hence added as another comment.
OP here. CLARIFICATION: First apologies, I should have framed this better originally, I will try to correct that here*.
My purpose in interacting with ChatGPT and asking about cognitive dissonance (c.d. hereafter) related to climate change denial was not to look for a clinical definition of c.d. nor to test how much ChatGPT “knew” about it, or to illustrate how cute LLM models could be. It was only to get a working starting point for a discussion.
My goal was, given a quick reasonable “average user” working definition of c.d., how could I a) relate that to climate change denial, and further b) what could those of us who are not “deniers” (for want of a better label) do to attempt to get beyond c.d. amongst those who are.
Opinion: It seems to me that we have to somehow try to go beyond publicising link after link on the apocalyptic impacts of climate change, although those impacts clearly are apocalyptic, and the facts are still extremely important to get out there. Honestly myself I feel I have to work towards some closure of the “c.d. gap” - which I believe is much more widespread than only out & out deniers (and includes myself).
@Mod /u/silence7@slrpnk.net, I hope I’m not out of line here, if so, I apologise, please be gentle.
*I considered editing the original post to add this, but I do not want to ‘move the goal posts’ on the discussion, hence added as another comment.