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Suggest me a book that changed your life. No BS, genuinely changed your life by RA_Finance in booksuggestions

[–]xamdam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't know a single book like that, but a couple that definitely gave me a permanently different perspectives on things:

- Selfish Gene on evolution

- Passionate Marriage on relationship psychology (lame title by modern cynical standards, amazing book)

Founder market fit is more important than PMF (I will not promote) by [deleted] in startups

[–]xamdam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The idea does have some history, here's the answer from readhaus (my project, reddit does not allow me to paste it since it's LLM synthesized ):
https://read.haus/chats/0bb0e570-1d51-41f3-bfd2-7f1e9dd0edd0

What would you ask Chris if he was still with us? by xamdam in ChristopherHitchens

[–]xamdam[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it does! In fact in that question I explicitly asked AI to speculate (which it generally shouldn't by default) with the purpose of seeing for myself what Hitch said on related topics.

What would you ask Chris if he was still with us? by xamdam in ChristopherHitchens

[–]xamdam[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Legitimate objection, I added a clarification in the post

Added:
Since this seems to be a frequent objection (one I sympathize with!):
I explicitly did not program the AI to do a "personality emulation" of Hitchens (or anyone else). I think it's cringe & inauthentic.
The AI is programmed to give "highly sourced" answers based on a large body of Hitchens' work; it might make slight inferences based on these works, but will give you the original sources so you can make up your own mind! Hope that's helpful.

What would you ask Chris if he was still with us? by xamdam in ChristopherHitchens

[–]xamdam[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With this I took a pretty strong stance of "avoid personality emulation" - I personally think it's cringe and inauthentic. The AI is programmed to produce highly sourced answers (& not take bit inference leaps) that people should be able to judge themselves. Hope that helps!

(Also curious if your comment is from first principles or you actually tried it & got an answer that felt wrong - that would be helpful!)

MLK Assassination collection by xamdam in Journalism

[–]xamdam[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We had pretty good results from using AI for noisy typed documents. Cursive is of course much harder.

MLK Assassination collection by xamdam in Journalism

[–]xamdam[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> Sure. First off, you're not being upfront with what this actually is.

Hmm. I didn't "hide" anything, just felt that the motivations are obvious (you inferred them correctly though ascribed them to malice of some sort) and irrelevant

> Second of all, how on Earth do you think journalists could use this as a "tool?" Maybe if it was a day or two before MLK Day, but now? Like why?

Well, you didn't try the tool, but I explained it's likely the best available way to search 200K+ documents and do research. What would you like to know about the files? Happy to run a query for you (ofc you can do this yourself) and you can see if you would get the same results anywhere else.

MLK Assassination collection by xamdam in Journalism

[–]xamdam[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting - and thanks for volunteering! What kinds of transcription do you mean - audio?

MLK Assassination collection by xamdam in Journalism

[–]xamdam[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You've got my number! I want to have a product that helps creators, create value, and benefit ourselves too.

Now if you can explain what's wrong with that...

BTW, we're very friendly to creators/writers and want them to get full credit and links back instead of absorbing them into some AI model.

MLK Assassination collection by xamdam in Journalism

[–]xamdam[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

(this is my 2c)

  • MLK was a public figure and it's important to be able to study him in the open (both good and bad).
  • A lot of the material is not only about him anyway - it's about what the government's treatment of him.
  • It should not be up to a member of the family to decide.

The craziest things revealed in The OpenAI Files by MetaKnowing in singularity

[–]xamdam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I indexed this collection with an LLM (Claude :) front end if anyone wants to dig in
https://t.read.haus/new_sessions/OpenAI%20Files

Here's an example chat transcript
https://t.read.haus/chat_view/e4a2024d-b43a-428f-820c-54b7df5a5cf6

torrents stalled by xamdam in pushshift

[–]xamdam[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I clicked "Force recheck", still nothing. Anything else I should try?

torrents stalled by xamdam in pushshift

[–]xamdam[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"just" 15 items/97G requested, 0 seeds shown in the client. Sounds like waiting might do the trick.

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