Gregory's ServerI once had the unique displeasure of seeing Paul Graham give the worst keynote ever, where his thesis was that big world shattering ideas are like hot women and that the audience was all just impotent little nerd boys who wouldn't know what to do to a hot woman if they were alone together. Then he laid out his oh so big ideas that the audience was simply too cowardly to handle, which I shit you not were things like "replace email" and "make an app so he doesn't have to go to the doctor".
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 @aeva Oh man that's as bad as Crockford's keynote where he said that the web needed to be reinvented as an app model for set top boxes. (in 2016 or so...) Anyways, I this morning I was thinking that with machine learning we have the tech now we could make a social media converter that could convert all the social media you don't want to participate in to formats you do. For example use an ai summary system to convert emails into toots. Or some other ai woowoo to expand toots into long form youtube essays with sponsor breaks in the middle. Or translate sound cloud songs into thingiverse 3D models.  @aeva And translate Paul Graham keynotes into one of those hour long fart noise compilation YouTube videos @aeva I've thought about this for a long time. It would be great. The closest thing I can think of is transcribed voicemail. I think 75% of the time I get enough from the transcript that I don't have to actually listen to it @aeva I would like to get those special-offer-laden "newsletters" from places I did business with once, several years ago, delivered instead as brief shitposts referencing arcane inside-baseball drama in something entirely outside my areas of experience, please. |
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