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Loads of AI chatter is the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect on steroids

I took this PDF and used Notebook LM (front-page HN the other day) to make a podcast out of this story to see how it did:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hftl66dw3z8cg5ocjw9nx/newton-...

> Programmers continuing to become more expensive, computers continuing to become less so. Therefore, the smart bet was on making those programmers more productive EVEN AT THE EXPENSE OF THE COMPUTER!

Simple but brilliant insight.

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I used Blot for about 5 years for Second Breakfast. Its ease of use got me started blogging. Very cool app/service, highly recommend.

I had it strung up with RSS to Mailchimp to auto-send new posts to a mailing list. Recently just switched to Ghost to make that more integrated, we'll see how it goes!

[Author here] I really have no definition of agency. Do you know of any good ones?

Haven't thought of this. Couldn't you just give a model a way to constantly "chew" on something? Maybe an ever-ending loop of some sort of prompt stimulation?

Going to actually link to this comment in my footnote, I loved that snippet from his interview

Do you have an API where you can get audio clips back reasonably quickly? Like if I wanted to use this in a voice support bot, could I send a text blurb to an API and fairly quickly get back an audio file?

The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Teaching the history and story of the scientists who made different genetic discoveries, and along the timeline they made those discoveries, made everything make sense.

Love bill burr

Reminds me of the George Carlin bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdSi9NW5u3E

Humor aside, it's a depressing worldview to me that each marginal human is a net negative. I take the opposite view, that each human is a net positive - and we need all the brainpower we can get to solve all of our problems.

I disagree that there are too many people. Have you read much about the Malthus/George debates? Malthus has now been wrong for 200 years (and counting).

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You should build this! This is one of those "all of the above" moments.

Interesting, why do you think Hitchens wanted to be Orwell? [I know he was a huge admirer, but he also seemed he lived quite a different life with different kinds of output.]

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We're a real business. We bootstrapped for 5 years and then closed our first funding in company history from an amazing group of investors this past spring. We're currently 10 full-time employees and 2 part-time contractors with plans to double our team in the next 6 months. Hiring for:

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