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by sandspar 1y ago
The unwashed hordes of normies are invading AI, just like they invaded the internet 20 years ago. Will GPT-4o be Geocities, and GPT-6, Facebook?
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They say they'll design a "fully novel" type of product - what does that mean? If we take them at their word then it rules out glasses, watches, phones, laptops, and headphones. What does that leave? What seems most in line w
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Future AI will deserve a say in the design of its own body, right? Maybe it's not smart enough now, but as it dawns into personhood it'll likely gain some legal rights, including perhaps over its own body. Anyhow, as the AI's
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It's not just a Disney TV show about space lasers, it's an IMPORTANT Disney TV show about space lasers.
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Just what Disney needs, more shoehorned politics.
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I'm not an expert so I may be wrong about all this. But my impression is that Pictorialist photography aped painting for 50 years. Photography only came into its own as a "photography native" art form with Stieglitz and peopl
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AI video may be to Hollywood as photography was to painting. Photography wasn't "painting, but better" - it was a different thing. AI-native video may not resemble typical Hollywood 3-act structure. But if it takes enough eye
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30TB of Google storage is a soft lock-in. If you fill it up you're kinda stuck.
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I'm struck by his quotes. They sound like basic advice. "People are generally good, few people want to hurt you" etc. Normally people say this without thinking but with him it's backed up by so much experience. It's
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In a handful of years you'll have the voice/video generation come of age. Also we may have some new form factor like AI necklaces or glasses or something.
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Roam seemed to depend too much on legends about a guy who was a hyper genius. Roam's implicit promise was that if you use the hyper genius's method then you'll become a hyper genius too.
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Supermemo is neat but it seems too dependent on the whims of one guy. Same reason I'm hesitant to use LingQ to learn languages.
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I've fiddled with a bunch of stuff - macros, standalone programs etc - before finally settling on copy and paste. I just copy and paste a page of PDF into Anki then cloze single words (~6-15 words a page). I've worked through seve
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A guy on Reddit had a sister with this. He described her personality as like "a Golden Retriever who can text".
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Yeah, the value of the typical job application meta is trending to zero very quickly. Entrepreneurship has a steep learning curve; you should start learning it as soon as possible. Don't waste your time learning to run a straight line
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It was written and posted by an AI which is puppeteering an abandoned HackerNews account.
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AI images, written by an AI (likely ChatGPT), posted by an account whose last post was in 2021 (except for 2 recent submissions of this same blog within the last week). I really hope that HackerNews won't go the way of Facebook and eve
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by sandspar 1y ago
Could you share your prompt to get it to ask clarifying questions? I'm wondering if it would work in custom instructions.
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TLDR it's a typical narrative article: "female artist overshadowed by her famous husband". Magazines like the BBC and The Guardian pump out these articles by the dozen. She may or may not be a good painter; her skill is irrel
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I'm surprised nobody has made another Tamagotchi, like form factor and all. You'd think it'd be quite popular. Kids love the Y2K thing, plus since it looks so distinctive you'd get a "cool kids" effect ("J
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by sandspar 1y ago
Psychologists call this the "psychological moment." You can tell a depressed friend 100 times that they should go for a walk and they'll ignore you. Then for some reason the 101st time it sinks in, they go for a walk and lo,
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by sandspar 1y ago
I suppose you could do this in Tasker on Android with a Scene at Y=0. I'm curious whether it works though. When I try these kinds of things, my eyes ignore it after a day or two. All productivity hacks have lifespans but I find that re
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Human beings have unfathomed depths. You don't know how you'd react under the same pressures. Like, unless you've been there, you simply don't know. Our behavior under extreme stress is unpredictable, even to ourselves.
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The world is very big.
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She's an artist. It's her job to be slightly irrational. Overall she seems kind.
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I find that I'm learning much more and much faster with AI. I have a tutor in my pocket 24/7. With AI, I can now learn in a day what would have taken me a week before. And the tutor will only get smarter, and better at teaching, a
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"Phew, this novelist career is too unstable! I know - I'll become a video game writer instead!"
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It's The Guardian, a British newspaper for people who consider themselves upwardly mobile. Status anxiety is kind of their thing.
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Interesting to see how the news works. "Imagineers make a Walt Disney robot": not newsworthy. "Imagineers make a Walt Disney robot... And it's controversial": newsworthy. It really seems like they want us at each ot
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Ok man sounds like you've got the cultural and historical situation under control.

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