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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Agree. When AI lays out ten good points about something I oppose, I can’t dismiss them all at once. The sheer volume of legitimate perspectives forces movement. That’s the cvs2bvs mechanism.
Wholeheartedly agree. Our binary practices mean we tend not to sit on the fence. We jump to an opinion. Doing a GBB ourselves could take many hours and the investment required at an emotional and practical level is daunting. So we would tend not to do that.
A ChatGPT GBB puts a range of BVSs on your plate instantaneously, so you immediately (and more willingly) explore choices, options, alternatives rather than binary judgement.
Yes Michael, I agree.
But not blindly. Doing a GBB with the help of ChatGPT is a huge time saver. It provided Good, Bad, and Better idea responses that would have taken me hours, if not a full day to come up with. Still the responses should be vetted for practicality and long-term workability taking human nature into account. Something I do not believe ChatGPT and other LLS are capable of factoring into it’s responses…yet.
Not in the sense of challenging/changing your perspectives. When you challenge ChatGPT on an idea, it immediately backs down and says terribly sorry, you were right. It might be able to make you change your mind about taking a particular action but similarly to the internet in general it won’t make you change your beliefs.
I agree. The tool helps to broaden your thinking. Even though the outputs are in generalities, it does make me think out side the normal good/bad paradigm.
In a society with a legal framework around relationships, divorce and custody – most of the good feeling statements above are quite frankly irrelevant once 5 years arrives.
Any psychopath that is setting out to make a gain at the expense of another person knows that and will enthusiastically embrace the framework outlined above as a means to an end.
So for me the parameters outlined by Chat GPT can only apply to short term relationships.
The Books Surrounded by Psychopaths and Surrounded by Narcissists by Thomas Erikson are real eye openers in this area and should be read by any young person contemplating a longer term relationship
I agree with the statement. But I would put emphasis is on the word in the sentence “can”. The GBB exercise provides a way of prompting ones thinking to change one’s mind. You still have to go through other processes such as screening and analysis. You also have to put the change of mind into practice.
I agree. Using ai/gpt can broaden .points of view and add positive poss inabilities ( as well as. Negative and “interesting/ neutral points of vi3w”).
I agree with this assertion.
AI/ChatGPT has this strength which thinkers can exploit. It can quickly avail to you information from different sources and viewpoints for your consideration. However, before you are comfortable to apply the results and one must critically evaluate it starting with review of the inputs to ensure that they provided the relevant information and the pertaining context of the issue. If necessary, go for additional advice before applying it.
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.