Dustings# 82

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Regarding Wednesday’s post on the Pseudo Chatbot, I did actually ask ChatGPT the prompt that I used as an example in that post. Here’s how that went…

“I want you to describe the configuration of a deck of cards that has been shuffled and mixed face-up into face-down cards by a 38-year-old woman named Carmen from Tupper Lake, New York.”

🤖As an AI language model, I cannot directly observe Carmen from Tupper Lake, New York shuffling and mixing a deck of cards face-up into face-down cards. However, I can provide a general description of a shuffled deck of cards that has been mixed face-up into face-down cards.
Assuming Carmen has used a standard 52-card deck, a shuffled and mixed deck of cards would likely have a random arrangement of face-up and face-down cards. This could result in any number of possible configurations, depending on the specific shuffling technique used and the number of times the deck has been shuffled.
Some possible outcomes include:
  • Some cards may be entirely face-up or face-down, while others may have a mix of both orientations.
  • The order of the cards may be completely randomized, meaning that cards of the same suit or value may be scattered throughout the deck.
  • There may be clumps of face-up or face-down cards, with alternating sections of each orientation.
  • Depending on the shuffling technique used, there may be some cards that are more likely to be face-up or face-down than others.
Overall, the configuration of a shuffled deck of cards that has been mixed face-up into face-down cards is likely to be unpredictable and unique to each individual shuffle.🤖

Super helpful as per usual, ChatGPT

By the way, if you’re writing a long prediction in that fake chatbot, and you find it easier to write on a computer than on your phone, just write it in a draft in your email, then go into your email on your phone and copy and past it over.

This may be obvious, but someone asked about it, so I figured I’d pass that along for anyone else who needs the tip.

In my March 9th post about two influence tools, I mentioned the Infamous release and said you may have a hard time finding it because it didn’t seem to be available at most magic retailers.

I know have a couple of options for you:

  1. You can get it from MagicWorld.co.uk.

  2. Or if you want to support the creator directly (which is always appreciated) you can reach Daniel Medows by contacting him here. He has the cards/DVD combo as well as just the download if that’s all you need/want.

As mentioned in that post, this is a helpful tool that can be part of pretty much any trick where you’re forcing a word, concept, drawing, etc.

I will often have the cards out and “test” someone with them earlier in the night, and then bring it back around to those cards and do the reveal hours later.

The fact that this is something you can add onto many influence effects, as well as the different reframes I’ve written about here, makes it particularly useful

Joshua Jay likes to portray himself as an all-powerful wizard, genius of the magical arts, master of deception and the human mind.

The real Joshua Jay?

Can’t quite figure out hyperlinks.

Do I have any tax experts reading this? Tax time is coming soon. I go to a cafe most days of the week. The reason I go there is because it brings me a stream of new people into my life to interact with and it allows me to test out ideas on new people rather than burning out my friends and family on magic.

Can I write off my coffee??

If I was renting a performance space, I’d be able to write that off. In this case, isn’t the coffee my rental cost for being able to use the cafe as a testing ground?