I've heard, in this context, the partial counterargument that he was using traits which are a little fuzzy around the edges (where is the boundary between round and wrinkled?) and that he didn't have to intentionally fudge his data in order to get results that were too good, just be not completely objective in how he was determining them.

Of course, this sort of thing is why we have double-blind tests in modern times.

What happens if you ask it about its experiences as a reincarnated spirit?

I feel this conflates different kinds of weirdness, by using an overly vague definition and talking about cases where certain narrow kinds of weirdness are useful.

I couldn't even come up with counterexamples because of the vagueness. Being rude to strangers is weird, but surely you're not the only person who has done this, so you could argue "well, a lot of people do that so it's not weird enough to count". And then there's reference class manipulation. "Yes, there was only one Unabomber, but he should be considered as a member of the class 'violent political protests' and there are too many of that class to count it as weird".

Pointing to weirdness as good is like crackpots pointing to Galileo and Einstein. If you're doing something weird, it gets bad reactions, and you blame that on the weirdness, it's far more likely that you're just trying to excuse some character flaw in yourself than that you're the lone Einstein that nobody understands.

Features to benefit people accused of X may benefit mostly people who have been unjustly accused.  So looking at the value to the entire category "people accused of X" may be wrong.  You should look at the value to the subset that it was meant to protect.

Slavery is one subject that it's highly likely ChatGPT is specifically programmed to handle differently for political reasons. How did you get around this problem?

If they are, that link doesn't show it. First of all, it doesn't show Japanese prices at all. Second, even though it claims to "reflect restaurants of all sizes and segments", it doesn't, because a burger at McDonald's or Wendy's is not $16 and they obviously excluded fast food restaurants. How much is a burger in Japan if you exclude fast food?

Yet, that’s not what happened; inflation has been higher in the US. In Japan, you can get a good bowl of ramen for $6. In an American city, today, including tax and tip you’d probably pay more like $20 for something likely worse.

I'd be unsurprised if you could get a jar of peanut butter or a turkey in the US for a lot less than you could in Japan. This tells you nothing about the economy.

Non-instant ramen (or peanut butter) is vastly more popular in one country than another. Comparing the prices between the US and Japan is trying to compare the prices of a specialty food and a common food. Of course the prices will be different.

I'm going to be a party pooper here and point out that though this may be presented as an April Fool's joke, its main joke is that in a live debate, it is extremely funny to strawman your opponent's side. That's bad practice whether done as a joke or not.

Many of these things are subject to the objection "and you know who else proclaims that they're innocent? Innocent people."

Advice which says "don't act like you're innocent, and be skeptical of someone who claims to be innocent" is generally bad advice.

It also pattern-matches to a very clumsy smear, which I get the impression is triggering readers before they manage to appreciate how it relates to the thesis.

It doesn't just pattern match to a clumsy smear. It's also not the only clumsy smear in the article. You're acting as though that's the only questionable thing Metz wrote and that taken in isolation you could read it in some strained way to keep it from being a smear. It was not published in isolation.