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some guy had messy handwriting

on writing comics - panels and pages affect how dialogue is written.

Very unfortunate

non-renewable resource depletion problem comparable in extent to global water scarcity

paper fibres make the edges quite rough and serrated

Great summary in top comment

1. Medium: text -> images -> video -> 3D graphics -> VR
2. AI: time -> rank -> recommend -> generate
3. UI: click -> scroll -> tap -> swipe -> autoplay

That we get more immersive and more passive

equal parts fascinating and terrifying. Containing oil spills, recovering cargo, cutting the ship into pieces.

very beautiful. The impossibility of trying to describe incomprehensible things, the inability to explain what you like about someone, or the risk of breaking them down into categories that are then interchangeable

everything is complicated.

Lot of interesting stats throughout.

1. To add enough CO2 to Mars to make the atmosphere thicker (which reduces temp fluctations), would make the atmosphere unbreathable regardless of O2 content
2. Earth-like does not mean like current earth. For most of the planet’s history the water and atmosphere were toxic to us
3. It would take 79,000 years at current rocket speeds to get to Alpha Centauri

Will GPT improve GDP? Eli suspects probably not. Mentions that computers didn’t (or haven’t yet), and examples of larger industries that are not likely to be immediately affected; either slow moving regulatory blockers, or stuff like buildings that people are still better at.

Upsides are you are tweaking an existing app, improving a familiar experience. And same-origin requests vs having to mess with public APIs.

Look at their choice of spouse, how they treat service workers, how they invest their money and their time.

the low low low returns to artists from music streaming

Self-recommending

Unsurprising, but still shocking

• Be more specific in prompts, for role of the writer, and style and tone. It is not having a conversation
• Don’t ask it for facts or references or math.
• Play with memory and length, write smaller sections at a time to refine style

“There are two ways of doing calculations in theoretical physics”, he said. “One way, and this is the way I prefer, is to have a clear physical picture of the process that you are calculating. The other way is to have a precise and self-consistent mathematical formalism. You have neither.”

most truffle flavor is not derived from truffles. Often odorless other mushrooms are added for decoration (like the black pieces in truffle cheese).

Interesting that substuck gets mentioned for this - that maybe the main selling point is the subscription part rather than the publishing part. Maybe this is obvious but I had previously thought they were more about editing experience and hosting text.

Keep slightly tweaking and patenting the “new” thing.

Grim that the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 gets a section on this page…

The social survival mammoth - the irrational and unproductive obsession with what others think of us. It is more possible in smaller tribes, impossible in the global one.

About scaling culture rather than codebases

and some alternative suggestions on the topic

Very impressive speech synthesis demo - 3s of audio input and a passable imitation of the voice and tone.

you think are are doing ok at programming then come across this kind of thing

Python project to archive youtube videos

mostly just jokes and funny ones rather than best. I don’t even know what best would mean.

A grand thing to get better at