Oct 1, 2026 · 21 min · 8 segments
What does it mean that human beings cannot be as patient as ChatGPT? Rabbi Rotenberg explores what it means to strive for virtue - and specifically strive to be more patient human beings - in the age…
Sam RotenbergHost
And it wasn't as much as what was said during a recent exchange or what was not said during a recent exchange.
After getting bored with whatever task I was using it for, I started to ask it questions that were meant to be annoying.
And then I would argue the other side until it acknowledged that it was right the first time.
At which point I would be thanked by ChatGPT for pointing out what it had missed.
I would have it define nothing philosophically and then argue back and forth again and so forth and so forth.
There has never been, will never be, could never be a human being as patient as ChatGPT.
I, who had probably lost my patience with my children mere hours earlier, marveled at the litany of terribly vexing questions thrown at this machine and its ability to present a cool, even response every single time.
Had those same questions been addressed to a flesh and blood human being, there's no way the conversation would have gotten that far.
The rabbis of the Mishnah said, he who is slow to anger and quick to forgive is a pious person.
Hundreds of years before that, in Mishle, our book of Proverbs, better one who is slow to anger than a mighty warrior.
And it wasn't as much as what was said during a recent exchange or what was not said during a recent exchange.
After getting bored with whatever task I was using it for, I started to ask it questions that were meant to be annoying.
And then I would argue the other side until it acknowledged that it was right the first time.
At which point I would be thanked by ChatGPT for pointing out what it had missed.
I would have it define nothing philosophically and then argue back and forth again and so forth and so forth.
There has never been, will never be, could never be a human being as patient as ChatGPT.
I, who had probably lost my patience with my children mere hours earlier, marveled at the litany of terribly vexing questions thrown at this machine and its ability to present a cool, even response every single time.
Had those same questions been addressed to a flesh and blood human being, there's no way the conversation would have gotten that far.
The rabbis of the Mishnah said, he who is slow to anger and quick to forgive is a pious person.
Hundreds of years before that, in Mishle, our book of Proverbs, better one who is slow to anger than a mighty warrior.
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