> Finally there’s the tools-for-thought/notetaking people. God save us. It’s always the same thing. Your folder with notes—pardon me, your “second brain”—plus a

> Finally there’s the tools-for-thought/notetaking people. God save us. It’s always the same thing. Your folder with notes—pardon me, your “second brain”—plus an AI agent that writes, edits, synthesizes information, answers queries. You could build this in an afternoon, and it won’t move the needle in your life, for the same reason that building the second brain in the first place didn’t make a difference. I laughed out loud when I read this paragraph. There are so many "consciousness" or "memory" or "learning" AI bullshit startups right now...all of them not understanding how positional encoding of LLMs work. It's getting so ridiculous that I don't even understand why they're in the (uncurated) news everywhere. It's like everyone tries it out, and writes without any journalistic integrity because it's a sponsored article that costs 100$, and moves on. Spamming as a bought in service or something. It doesn't make sense to me, and I have no clue how broken the economics of this must be to get into the state of "AI news" we are in right now. Excuse my French, but something must be utterly broken.