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Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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I understand that this is kind of beside the point, but it seems like a bad thing to compare inventions to haunted artifacts that mind controlled their users into betraying their friends to a powerfully evil being. (Though since it is being powered by GenAI, which has also driven people to do bad things, perhaps it is an apt comparison.)

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

#43

> No screen glow, no keyboard, no chat UI. Is this not just... a chat UI?

Yes, arguably a worse one because you can’t stop to think. Doesn’t stop it from being really cool though.

I would argue that it does stop it from being really cool, but I'm not a millennial and thus despise Harry Potter.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

#44

This is soooo incredibly cool. Beyond the Tom Riddle diary aspect, I love the idea of this as a new medium for interacting with an LLM. You could gift it to someone and they could just write naturally, their thoughts, questions, notes, and get responses back without typing or speaking. It feels less like a chatbot and more like a journal you can communicate through. You could give it a personality and all.

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Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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This is one of those ideas that would really benefit from a short video demo, gif, or even a screenshot directly in the README. Otherwise, the title reads like a "Curtains for Zoosha?" meme. [0] [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/15hcc4x/c...

There's a video if you click around... https://x.com/MaximeRivest/status/2073544461473169432?s=20

I remember for roughly a month after Elon bought twitter he opened the site up again and public viewers could browse it. Now you can't even click play on a video lol.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

#46
post #42
post #9

I understand that this is kind of beside the point, but it seems like a bad thing to compare inventions to haunted artifacts that mind controlled their users into betraying their friends to a powerfully evil being. (Though since it is being powered by GenAI, which has also driven people to do bad things, perhaps it is an apt comparison.)

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

At least we're giving out free verification cans

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

#47

> No screen glow, no keyboard, no chat UI. Is this not just... a chat UI?

Yes, arguably a worse one because you can’t stop to think. Doesn’t stop it from being really cool though.

Incidentally, have any of the major AI provider's solved this problem for voice chats yet? It feels like even something like a simple keyword like “stop” would make having a conversation with an LLM a much better experience than a chat interface on a phone.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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post #2

This is one of those ideas that would really benefit from a short video demo, gif, or even a screenshot directly in the README. Otherwise, the title reads like a "Curtains for Zoosha?" meme. [0] [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/15hcc4x/c...

> Otherwise, the title reads like a "Curtains for Zoosha?" meme.

This is also why capitalization is important. In the title, "remarkable" refers to "Remarkable Paper Pro", a tablet. Not knowing that "Fable turned remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary" is very hard to parse.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

After clicking play, there's a prompt to log in. I had to use a video downloader service to watch it

You can just replace x.com with nitter.net, though their bandwidth sucks for media playback.

Harry Potter would have posted the original video to YouTube instead. It seems like a tragic irony, and perhaps a sign of danger, that OP posted the demo video to the website of He Who Should Not Be Named. Why? Why?!
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