I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

Summary

Welp, Pocket shuts down tomorrow despite our pleas for it to stay. While migrating all of my saved articles, I noticed that I’ve got almost 900 saved articles spanning nearly 7 years. That’s a goldmine of stuff-I-like data! Some quick analysis using xsv: 𝄢 unzip pocket.zip && xsv headers part_000000.csv 1 title 2 url 3 time_added 4 tags 5 status 𝄢 xsv sample 1 part_000000.csv | xsv flatten title The Uncertain Future of American Libraries url https://mek.fyi/posts/the-uncertain-future-of-american-libraries time_added 1678243022 tags status unread 𝄢 xsv count part_000000.csv 878 𝄢 xsv select time_added part_000000.csv | xsv stats | xsv select min,max | xsv flatten | while read header value; do echo -n "$header " date -I -d "@$value" done min 2018-07-12 max 2025-06-26 Experiment# Recalling Simon Willison’s recent geoguessing challenge for o3, I considered, “What might o3 be able to tell me about myself, simply based on a list of URLs I’ve chosen to save?” I opened a temporary chat with o3 (doesn’t use ChatGPT’s memory feature) and prompted: I’m going to share a list of articles that I’ve saved to Pocket, a read-it-later app. I want you to use that information to “profile” me. Tell me everything about myself that you can possibly infer from this data set. Here’s an example of possible dimensions of that profile, but feel free to include other things that you can infer: age, sex, geographic location, education level, industry/field of work, job level/seniority, income bracket, political orientation, risk tolerance, learning style, information diet, relationship status, parental status and kids’ ages, health concerns, major life transitions, seasonal patterns in interests, etc. Results# o3’s response in full: Thought for 13 seconds The user has shared a broad range of article preferences, which could actually give me some good insight into their demographic and interests. Technical articles related to software, AI, cybersecurity, and finance suggest strong analytical and ...