Befriending an Image of Casanova
I’ve always been a voracious reader. My biggest literary challenge I took on thus far is reading Histoire de ma vie by Giacomo Casanova in French. My French being at a sufficiently high level[ˆ1], I feel comfortable reading the text. However, to fully grasp the nuances of Casanova’s writings, I fed his entire memoir to Claude. I instructed the AI to act as if I was speaking to the dead writer and adventurer, instructing “him” to, first of all correct my French grammar, and second to answer my queries in the dead writer’s voice. ...