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by setsewerd 2y ago
We reason these things not simply to contradict our feelings (though that is often a side effect), but to draw conclusions of how best to improve society and our species as a whole. If human procreation is immoral simply because it creates
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by setsewerd 2y ago
Primarily for reading articles aloud online. I've been trying the latest Siri TTS which is a big improvement (and free), but it's still nowhere near accurate enough for proper nouns or newer terms, which ElevenLabs handles much be
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by setsewerd 2y ago
Any plans to make a Chrome extension variant? Been looking for a high quality and cheap TTS extension for ages (like ElevenLabs Human Reader, except with less absurd pricing)
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by setsewerd 2y ago
Yeah, my setup the last couple years has been a 4k projector + blackout curtains + casting movies via Airplay from my laptop. The screen ends up being over 90" horizontally (haven't measured diagonally). Zero ads, and the curtains
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by setsewerd 2y ago
Late response here that might not be useful to you, but I mostly use Google docs for lyrics (on both my phone and laptop) and tend to rely on bullets for alternative lines. This is fine for 1-2 alternate versions of a given line, but would
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by setsewerd 2y ago
I use ChatGPT a lot each day for writing and organizing tasks, and summaries/explanations of articles etc. When dealing with topics I'm familiar with, I've found the hallucinations have dropped substantially in the last few y
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by setsewerd 2y ago
Napping is also associated with dementia, I wonder if that's explained by sleep deprivation? Could be that you don't get as much (if any) deep sleep during shorter naps, compared to a full night's sleep.
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by setsewerd 2y ago
Seconding this. My team meets annually for several days, at a conference that gives us plenty of social time together in the evenings. As you said it's hard to quantify the value, but anecdotally I notice it most in 3 (distinct but som
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by setsewerd 2y ago
This brings up the broader question: why are AI companies so bad at naming their products? All the OpenAI model names look like garbled nonsense to the layperson, while Anthropic is a bit of a mixed bag too. I'm not sure what image Cla
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by setsewerd 2y ago
I agree, I just don't understand this newfound hatred of AI-generated stock photos, when stock photos have always been bland and almost never a value-add for content. I'm especially confused about this for feature images, because
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by setsewerd 2y ago
Irrelevant images definitely cheapen the perceived quality of an article, but let's not conflate "AI image" with "irrelevant image." AI images are often at least as relevant as a stock photo, if not more so (assumin