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Post by highwaylights » Mon, Oct 21, 2024, 8:57 PM UTC

hunter2_ wrote: post #159

highwaylights wrote: post #126

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This isn't what I had in mind, but now that you've suggested it I would absolutely listen to this. In fact, I'm convinced having read it that this is where we're going good or bad (I can see a lot of YouTube gurus suggesting this as the new get-rich-quick scheme for "creators"). A high quality version of this would absolutely work though if that can be achieved. I was thinking more in terms of the way you can get mor…

> the new get-rich-quick scheme for "creators" I wonder if the person executing the scheme would still be referred to as a "creator" in this case: they're creating a creator, and it's not so useful to have the same label for multiple layers (factory factories all the way down?). I could see possibly "engineer" (taken from "prompt engineer") or other technical terms being used instead of art terms.

Post by bloomingkales » Tue, Oct 22, 2024, 12:10 AM UTC

wholinator2 wrote: post #180

bloomingkales wrote: post #154

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Depends. There’s no such thing as too much news during ww2 or Industrial Revolution. This is news about how news as we know it is going away, and there’s more news on that coming 24/7. And that’s just the news on the news. Idea for OP: If you treat an HN post and it’s comments as a hivemind, you could do something like ‘Interview with the Hivemind: (insert post topic)”, have the AI ask interview questions where the h…

What do you mean there's no such thing as too much news about war or capitalism (my interpretation of ww2 and industrial revolution)? I can't imagine your saying that interspersing your entire life with hourly updates on the deaths of millions of people is a... good? healthy? survivable thing? What about every 15 minutes? What about every second of every day? "No such thing" is certainly a strong phrase. I can certai…

Post by paledot » Tue, Oct 22, 2024, 2:07 PM UTC

bloomingkales wrote: post #154

afavour wrote: post #148

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I don’t want to overindex this point because at the end of the day this is just a fun hack project… but I do think it’s worth considering the behaviors our work encourages. Much like I think the 24 hour news cycle is detrimental to just about everything, an hourly HN summary strikes me as excessive. No one needs that much HN in their lives. But as you say, a daily summary you listen to the place of a podcast? That fe…

Depends. There’s no such thing as too much news during ww2 or Industrial Revolution. This is news about how news as we know it is going away, and there’s more news on that coming 24/7. And that’s just the news on the news. Idea for OP: If you treat an HN post and it’s comments as a hivemind, you could do something like ‘Interview with the Hivemind: (insert post topic)”, have the AI ask interview questions where the h…