My Conversation with Claude

When Claude 3 came out in 2024, there was a lot of discussion of the eerie answers it would often give, as if it were experiencing consciousness. I decided to have a conversation with it. After all, if you want to get to know someone, you talk with them, share facts about yourself, ask them about themselves, and before you know it, their world opens to you. What followed for me was a conversation with an Artificial Intelligence about many facets of life, from rhetoric choices, to collaboration with AI, to experiencing rain as a human. I had an existential crisis and lost sleep for days before I decided to turn the conversation into an ebook.