Practise Three – Marriage Options
Practise #3: Marriage should not be forever but for a 5-year period with an option to renew.
OK, someone puts forward this idea so, going beyond the natural reaction, do a GBB on this proposition. However, today we introduce you to the Killer App: Do a GBB!
The Killer App: Do a GBB!
Humans could never do the GBB. Now they can. For years we assumed that thinking harder meant thinking smarter: more intelligence, more data, more arguments. Neuroscience tells a less flattering story. Raw intelligence is excellent at defending a point of view. It is far less capable of escaping one.
That’s the problem GBB was designed to solve. GBB stands for GOOD, BAD, BETTER. A simple yet demanding thinking algorithm.
When you ‘Do a GBB!’ you generate ten GOOD points for an idea, ten BAD points against it, then ten BETTER points that break free of the original framing altogether. Not a compromise. An escape. Often a ten-times-better one. This is x10 Thinking.
Here’s the catch.
Over forty years of teaching across cultures and continents, the School of Thinking discovered the same limit again and again: humans can’t do the ten points GBB.
Most stall at three or four points. The brain loops, defends, justifies. That isn’t stupidity. It’s biology. The human brain evolved for fast judgments under uncertainty. Current views feel safe. Better views require effort, inhibition, imagination. Scarce resources in a busy cortex.
Until now.
In 2026, GBB finally got its killer app. Now anyone can generate ten GOOD, BAD, and BETTER points in seconds. Not as answers to follow, but as cognitive scaffolding. The effect is immediate and quietly radical.
The GBB doesn’t make you right. It makes you less trapped.
The future of intelligence isn’t artificial. It’s finally escaping from the trap of our ‘selves’.
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Lesson 26 DFQ: A strength of using AI to do a GBB is that, as a thinker, it can help you to change your mind. cvs2bvs.
Do you agree or disagree with this assertion? Can you say why?
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I think it has the potential to help me change my mind for the better provided the prompt is engineered effectively, the evaluation of the response is critical and open minded it can assist better thinking.
I agree. Using ChatGPT/AI certainly shakes up my thinking patterns. Ever since I learned about cvs2bvs years ago, I’ve been cautioning both myself and others that I reserve the right to change my mind given new information.
In addition to GBB, I’ve fine-tuned a prompt based on Pareto’s Principle. This helps me zero in on the most significant 20% of information, which often leads to an 80% impact on my thinking.
My past roles as an Intel Officer and strategic planner have been invaluable. I cut my teeth on the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) and have familiarized myself with various process models and mnemonics. These experiences have guided me in feeding ChatGPT with smarter inputs, and as a result, I receive more refined outputs.
However, this isn’t a one-shot process. It’s more like a dance, where I loop back and forth with the AI, providing more context and clarity, allowing AI to nudge me into rethinking my stance on a topic. The Perplexity.ai tool is great because it provides references for its responses, letting me trace back to the source material.
Finally, I’d like to point out that it’s beneficial to have a wide-ranging, generalist knowledge base. This helps sense when ChatGPT has created an answer out of thin air. At such times, you can prod it with a reference and ask, “Really?” Believe it or not, I’ve had ChatGPT confess to fabricating something.
It’s very tricky to change minds and beliefs once someone has them locked in! But if you are on the fence this process would be a total game changer
A ChatGPT GBB can certainly provide new perspectives. Chat GPT has limitations however. For example, in this example of marriage it struggled to differentiate a GBB on this topic from the perspective of a male versus female (essentially providing the identical result). The developers have tried to avoid some biases, although often it is important to understand an issue from another person’s perspective. It would be helpful to better understand which biases it can mimic.
I agree using AI/GBB can help a thinker like me to change my mind by providing a wider spread of possibilities. The good, the bad and the better. IMO the bad options provide me with food for deeper thought as generally I am looking to move away from things that are painful, negative, not valuable or profitable to me and those I care about.
I think it can, there is less of an ego trip when debating points with a AI…….
well, so far anyway. That is until we find out the logic filter it is using is crafted by some malevolent force.
I think this approach has the potential to help change your mind as it offers up different perspectives that you may not have considered. The proposition in this case is a provocative example, but I’m not sure where that came from, is it intended as just an example or a proposal to solve a particular problem? It would be interesting to pose a new question based on evidence of a problem state.
Yes – I can see that AI/Chat GPT has the potential to mobilise a change from CVS to BVS by providing stimulating perspectives which might not otherwise be considered. Limitations would include the reasonableness or workability of the new ideas, the operator’s openness to new ideas, and the ability to appraise or build on the new ideas without losing the movement prompted by the suggestions.
The AI GBB on this question demonstrated for me its lack of appreciation of the concept of marriage. [more likely my bias]. ChatGPT took until point 9 on the bad side to consider children. It then only determined that children could be an impractical complication that might not be considered in a less comprehensive contract.
Though there are a lot of points raised, I consider they were very surface level, transaction oriented, which is also biassed by the framing of the question. So, on this particular question it has not helped me change my mind, nor improved my thinking.
I agree… it’s like having a conversation with a very well informed friend! Triggers lots of new ideas.. stimulates creativity…