Hi, just a thought. Would it work if there was a simple chat function on the main page where you can ask quick questions, hang out, have general discussions?
The process of making a post works fine for in dept questions but for small questions it would be nice if we could ask for help and chat as if we were in the same room/building. (Maybe this chat function has some requirements for practical reasons, like being around for longer than one day.)
Just plug ChatGPT into the forum⌠
Topics on ChatGPT was all i could find when searching for my question haha. Are you telling me it can answer Grasshopper related questions?
Okay, i tried it and it works. Thatâs pretty wild. I will certainly use it next time i have a small question.
But quite the opposite of the social experience of chatting with peers however⌠We now need this chat function to talk about how we are going to protect ourselves from being automated, hehehe.
PS: it wasnât actually able solve my question! PfewâŚ
My question was how to turn a list such as
{A;B;C;D}
{A;B;C;D;E}
into
{A;B;C;D}
{A;B;C;D}
It just made up a whole new component: Subtree
Yep, it doesnât actually know anything, it just scrapes stuff it finds on the internet, both right and wrong answers.
Yep, if it doesnât find a suitable answer, it just makes stuff up. In a different thread, it suggested rhinoscriptsyntax methods that donât exist either.
Now we need to teach ChatGPT to honestly say âI donât knowâ. Also we need to teach people saying âI donât knowâ! Thatâs the next level skill.
Dubio, ergo sum
Btw, i think this thread going off topic supports the value of my original suggestion
Thereâs the unofficial Grasshopper Discord:
Looks good, thanks!
No. The âquick questionâ is a newbie myth.
And In this vibrant community there is not such things like"Quick, Stupid or Dumb" questions.
We like to disagree and itâs a good thing.
For certain questions there might be an easy âquick answerâ though. However there are often a half-dozen or more âanswersâ. âAnswersâ also differ from âsolutionsâ - of which there are also frequently many.
People asking questions are generally not qualified to determine whether or not a question has a quick answer. The term âquick questionâ implies simple and easy to answer, which is often not the case.
Dunno, I often reply to âquick questionsâ here with a one-line âquick answerâ.
One could have the view that this would be a bad idea as it would facilitate too many unscrupulous, offensive, soliciting and degenerative remarks, questions, opinions, political arguments⌠yadda yadda yadda⌠the sort of trash that belongs to other places - like âsocialâ media. This place is a relief, as it just focuses on one thing - the software we stare at everyday, occasionally moving the wrists to press with index finger to click menus, to click buttons, to pan, to dream, to get frustrated and stuff like that.
Having given it some more thought i must say i think you are right. It always seems desirable to be able to do things in realtime, to do more in less time, but that is also what is demanded of us and what social media feed off. I understand this forum can feel like a relief. And otherwise there is the more realtime Discord community. 
