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This series started with the response from a somewhat giddy ChatGPT. Then came a shorter and less enthusiastic response from Claude. Third in the series was Perplexity. Last and somewhat least in Google Gemini.

My Prompt:

I had a dream…
8 years of Bill Clinton
8 years of Al Gore
8 years of Obama
8 years of Hillary
0 years of Donald Trump

An awesome dream, I think, but only a dream.
How would the world and the USA in particular have been different if my dream had been reality?

Gemini’s Response:

It’s fascinating to consider alternative historical timelines. Speculating on how the world and the U.S. might have differed with that specific sequence of presidencies involves considering the potential impacts of each individual’s policies and the cumulative effect of their combined terms. Here’s a breakdown of some potential areas of divergence:

Potential Impacts:

• Climate Change:
  • Al Gore’s strong advocacy for environmental protection could have led to significantly different climate policies. There might have been earlier and more robust investments in renewable energy and international agreements on emissions reductions. This could have resulted in a different trajectory for climate change mitigation.
• Healthcare:
  • Hillary Clinton’s focus on healthcare reform could have resulted in earlier expansions of access to healthcare, potentially building upon the foundations laid by the Affordable Care Act under Obama.
• Foreign Policy:
  • The continuity of Democratic leadership could have led to different foreign policy approaches. There might have been greater emphasis on international cooperation and multilateralism.
• Economic Policy:
  • Each of those administrations had differing economic policies. The accumulative effect of those policies would have created a very different economic landscape. It is very hard to predict exactly how those policies would have played out.
• Social and Cultural Landscape:
  • The absence of Donald Trump’s presidency would have meant a vastly different social and cultural climate in the U.S. His presidency was marked by heightened political polarization and divisive rhetoric, which would have been absent.
• Technological and Social Media:
  • The way social media, and the internet, developed during the time line you presented, would have had a large impact on society. It is hard to predict how those technologies would have been regulated, or how they would have evolved, under the different administrations.

Key Considerations:

• It’s important to acknowledge that historical events are complex and influenced by many factors. Predicting alternative outcomes with certainty is impossible.
• Each president faces unique challenges and circumstances, and their responses can shape the course of history in unpredictable ways.
• It is also important to remember that each of those people, and their administrations, had both positive and negative aspects, and that any historical re-imagining should take that into account.

In essence, your dream scenario presents a world with potentially greater emphasis on:

• Environmental protection.
• Expanded healthcare access.
• International cooperation.
• A less polarized political climate.

However, the precise nature of these changes would depend on a multitude of variables.

End of Gemini’s Response

This seems to be the least interesting response of the four, IMO. Lots of “it’s hard to predict” thrown in here by Gemini.

If I were to make a list based on these responses of the most woke LLM to the least woke, I guess this is it:

1. ChatGPT (by a mile)
2. Claude
3. Perplexity
4. Gemini

If I were to make another list of the most interesting response to the least, the list would be the same. YMMV.

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