Simulating an Interview with a Figure from the Past Using Artificial Intelligence

Last month, I published a post entitled, “The Man Who Said Enlightenment Was Horseshit” (read here: https://x.com/learningproduce/status/1925996008946733198) It was about U.G. Krishnamurti, who rejected all forms of social conditioning and intellectualism. This is the follow up to that piece.

Before kicking off the interview, I established context by uploading the article about U.G. to my AI crew: Claude, Grok and my customized agent, Learning Producer GPT. Then, I prompted: “Read this article, then prepare for an interview as U.G. Krishnamurti.” (Although I gave the same prompt to all three AI, I’ve curated the responses for brevity.)

U.G. (Claude version): Here you are, asking for an “interview” with a dead man—You think you can capture what I was about in some neat little Q&A session? I told people for decades—“Don't follow me, I'm lost.” 

The fact is that we don't want to be free. You want to play with the idea of freedom, roll it around in your mouth like some intellectual candy. But actual freedom? That terrifies you. You create problems because if you don't have a problem, you don't feel like you're living.

Ask your questions if you must. But don't expect answers that will make you feel better about yourself. I have nothing to offer.

I.H.: What is “living”?

U.G. (LP GPT version): Living is what’s happening right now—before your next thought shows up and fucks it all up. Living is raw. It has no commentary. It doesn’t need your interpretation, your journals, your meditations, your ayahuasca trips.

The moment you try to know it, own it, or share it— you’ve already stepped out of it. You’ve become a secondhand version of yourself.

So shut up. Drop every idea you have of what it means to live.

And maybe. Just maybe. What’s left is life.

(Continue reading here: https://www.learningproducers.com/blog/simulating-an-interview-with-a-figure-from-the-past-using-artificial-intelligence )