Those are not 28 ideas, those are 4-5 ideas rehashed. Generally, I want a personal fitness/wellness assistant, an artistic assistant, a search assistant, a random thoughts assistant, and an assistant to manage the assistants. The author wants for the ai to know what they want before they've wanted it and to serve them a suitable menu of choices to preserve the illusion that they are in control. I'm not sure that I'd sign under such a vision, but people want different things.
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#52I wrote #2 as a result of a web automation tool I a working on. It's easier to show than tell.
This is a video of me "vibe-coding" a userscript that adds a darkmode toggle to hacker news: https://screen.studio/share/r0wb8jnQ
The actual purpose of the vibe-coding userscripts feature is to vibe code WebMCP servers that the extension can then use for browser automation tasks.
Everything is still very WIP, but I can give you beta access if you want to play around with it
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#53On 12: I see a more general product that allows you to amass as much personal data from any of your devices for use as future chat context as inevitable. We see early notions of this in Microsoft’s Recall and the new Pulse. Hopefully someone will build a great local first/open source version and it’ll probably be the first time I actively choose to use such software over the equivalent cloud offering! Don’t want Sam Altman seeing my browser history
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#54As someone who is regularly involved in startup valuations, I think there’s quite a few million-dollar ideas in there—if not as standalone products, then at least as differentiation features for existing categories.
I recently gave one of my teen kids Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age to read, and we’ve both been commenting on how much smarter some “things” could be instead of everyone churning out a slightly different way to “chat with your data and be locked in to our platform”.
And I think this is why I’m so partial to Apple’s slow, progressive, under the covers integration of ML into its platform-input prediction, photo processing, automatic tagging, etc. we don’t necessarily need LLMs for a lot of the things that would improve computer experiences.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
It already exists in the form of the news feed on Google News and the one in the chrome mobile app, although the ability to tune this is only being able to click on articles to express your interest in them, instead of being able to provide a list of articles.
The entire web is more than recent news articles from a handful of news sites.
Tell that to Google.
I think everything has become too real-time.
I've ideated a few models whereby you do multipass commits to contributions, requiring a simmer time of like a day before becoming live.
So it's the speed of correspondence mail. It would probably work better but nobody wants to use it
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#56There's some sort of fundamental category mistake going on with thinking like this. Most of the items in this list fall prey to it, but it is maybe best exemplified by this one: > A writing app that lets you “request a critique” from a bunch of famous writers. What would Hemingway say about this blog post? What did he find confusing? What did he like? Any app that ever claimed to tell you what "Hemingway would say ab…
> Any app that ever claimed to tell you what "Hemingway would say about this blog post" would evidently be lying — it'd be giving you what that specific AI model generates in response to such a prompt. First, 100% agreed. That said, I found myself pondering Star Trek: TNG episodes with the holodeck, and recreations of individuals (e.g. Einstein, Freud). In those episodes - as a viewer - it really never occurred to me…
In that context, the computer was solving for a faithful representation. In our case, the computer is solving for most likely sequence of words to appear in conversations with a similar context - which not remotely the same thing.
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#57There's some sort of fundamental category mistake going on with thinking like this. Most of the items in this list fall prey to it, but it is maybe best exemplified by this one: > A writing app that lets you “request a critique” from a bunch of famous writers. What would Hemingway say about this blog post? What did he find confusing? What did he like? Any app that ever claimed to tell you what "Hemingway would say ab…
> Any app that ever claimed to tell you what "Hemingway would say about this blog post" would evidently be lying — it'd be giving you what that specific AI model generates in response to such a prompt. First, 100% agreed. That said, I found myself pondering Star Trek: TNG episodes with the holodeck, and recreations of individuals (e.g. Einstein, Freud). In those episodes - as a viewer - it really never occurred to me…
I wonder if there's a difference between "asking for critique" and "acting the part". I generally have no problem and or get fooled, watching a movie about a famous person, even though it's not actually that person. Rami Malek is not Freddie Mercury, Timothée Chalamet is not Bob Dylan. But we (or at least I) watch them and am to some degree, fooled / by into their depiction that I'm actually seeing the real person. I have to remind myself the actor's version is not the actual person.
It feels easier to portray famous characters how we'd think they'd act but seems harder how we'd expect them to critique something. I don't know of those are just points on a spectrum from easy to hard, or if one requires a level deeper than the other.
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#5828 ways to drink the LLM kool-aid!
Some of the suggestions might be useful if they could be made not so wasteful energy-wise; some indicate the author's false perceptions of what LLMs and transformater models do; and some are frightening from a mass-surveillance and other perspectives.
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#59A recommendation engine that looks at my browsing history, sees what blog posts or articles I spent the most time on, then searches the web every night for things I should be reading that I’m not. This kind of exists in the form of ChatGPT Pulse. It uses your ChatGPT history rather than your browser history, but that's probably just as good a source for people interested in using it (e.g. people who use ChatGPT enoug…
It's also essentially every social media platform with an algorithm selected feed.
Except those algos don't work. No idea if the LLM works.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's also essentially every social media platform with an algorithm selected feed.
Except those algos don't work. No idea if the LLM works.
I'm sure they work splendidly... to keep the average person on the platform as long as possible and show them ads :)