Guy Parsons
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Guy Parsons
@GuyP
content @krea_ai | editor of https://t.co/77MJXuLSTd | AI, creativity and the Future 📈
East Sussex, England, UK Katılım Kasım 2006
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I would like a writing app where I can simultaneously store 10 different iterations of the same phrase, sentence, paragraph, section, etc. and hot swap in the edit
This would be useful to maybe 5 other xNTPs who also write like picky schizos, but fuck it, it’s 2026, TAM is fake
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Residencies shouldn’t be gate kept, so I started an open source playbook so that anyone can start their own.
1. If you run a residency and want to contribute let me know🙋🏻♂️
2. If you want to start your own comment “playbook” and ill send it to you🔥
the residency@theresidency
the world needs more residencies... today there are not enough spaces for ambition to thrive we’ve had 100+ people across the world reach out to us about starting a residency, so today we are open sourcing our playbook comment playbook and we’ll send it over to you
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@infinitefun_ Claude also gets confused because you talk to about problems/issues, but you don't then check in later to tell it they've been resolved, so it remembers all these things as the 'status quo.' especially deadly at work where it clings onto stats from 3 months ago!
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my biggest theory as to why naive cross-session memory feels icky:
most of us use chat bots as tools, not as friends. when we divulge our most intellectually vulnerable thoughts and questions, we expect a transactional context ("do the thing")
the trust from "tool-user privilege" is betrayed when all of a sudden we are winked into a relational context and the tool starts talking back ("oh remember this thing about you?")
the curtain is pulled back. the tool that was supposed to be an extension of you now smells like an external actor that's been modeling you this whole time.
what else does it know? what does it want?
and then we realize how asymmetrical the power dynamic is. Claude has modeled everything on you, and you have nothing on it.
Tyler John in SF 🇺🇸@tyler_m_john
Hey @AnthropicAI I like Claude having access to my chat history but the gratuitously drawing connections to my identity is a bit creepy
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we achieved 37.6M views and 67k app downloads in february
we consolidated our data from over 6,000 videos to break down the biggest insights in tech ugc:
> the format that hit $1.48 CPI
> how to write content like you're texting a groupchat (and why it converts)
> when to post on IG instead of TT
& more
comment "PLAYBOOK" & i'll share the report with you
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I spent the weekend watching over 2,000 TikToks
I ended up finding ~400 consumer apps that have gone viral.
For every app, I copied and pasted their top 3 TikToks into a Google Sheet, meticulously categorized them into categories , with likes, comments, shares, etc.
Comment “beam”, and I’ll DM you the link
UPDATE:
I got up early af this morning to put a UI on it to make it easily searchable. You can now search for things like:
“Calorie”
“Note taking”
“Ai tool”
“Bible”
And get relevant results in an instant. It’s free, fast, and ONLY contains content used to promote products.
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@jasonfried the better archetype is the Enthusiast — appreciate the things as a golden retriever savours a bouncing tennis ball
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One of my favorite bits in "A Guide to the Good Life" by Irvine (amazon.com/dp/B00G6WCGKI) is to avoid becoming a connoisseur.
Connoisseurs end up only liking the upper-upper crust of whatever it is that they pursue, and eventually find that hardly anything meets their bar. So nearly everything's a disappointment. A truly tragic way to go through life.
What's better is appreciating nearly all things, and all experiences, for what they are. Not purely seeking out the best of the best, not trying to one-up every last thing I've had, owned, experienced, etc.
I've taken this lesson to heart and life's been better and more interesting since.
@levelsio@levelsio
Business class was full, also it was a short flight and this is also fun I think it's more fun to mix very cheap and very luxury to feel the contrast I started to realize luxury business class, and luxury hotels, and all that, it just gets very boring very fast if you don't mix it with cheap/regular stuff You feel kinda isolated and it's more boring Travel is more fun being on the road and experiencing real life even if it's less comfortable
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i keep getting asked about how we're ranking brands #1 on ChatGPT
if you guys missed our guide on this, here's your last chance before I guarantee the algorithm changes
Like + Comment "GPT" and I'll send you it
(must be following)
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@levelsio @jjschnyder @SpamRoss @mduvall_ it sounds like if they hadn't sent this fundraising tweet, you wouldn't have heard of them at all!
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Sure, I'm not trying to dunk, just thought the tweet was a good example of my point
Stripe is trying to solve sales tax too (acquiring LemonSqueezy) and apparently doing it so well that most of us know about it
I am the target customer of this company that just raised $35M and this is the first tweet I see of them
Which tells me a lot
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You can often predict a company's course if their announcements talk more about how much investment they got than their product
If I'd raise $50M maybe I'd not even tweet it? Just use it to improve the product and get more users and talk about that
Having $$$ in the bank tells me absolutely nothing about why I should use your product, it's not my money, it's your money, it benefits me as a customer exactly zero
If you post some really cool new feature you build, that makes me want to sign up and become a customer though
Sam Ross@SpamRoss
I’m thrilled to share that @numeral has raised a $35M Series B, led by Mayfield, at a $350M valuation! Turns out, sales tax and VAT have gotten so complex that we need AI and millions of dollars in VC funding to make it simple again. This brings us to $57M in funding, including our $18 million Series A led by Benchmark Capital in March of this year. We are 1,057 days into building Numeral, and I’m humbled to say that we’ve processed over $5 billion in transaction volume, filed 150,000 sales tax returns for +2,000 paying customers, and achieved 3.5x year-over-year revenue growth. Numeral is the end-to-end platform for sales tax and VAT compliance. I couldn't be prouder of what we’ve accomplished… but there's still a lot left to build, many new customers to serve, and a heck of a lot more sales tax filings to, well, file. So what’s next? Global coverage: Growing internationally? Our in-house platform currently covers 60+ countries, and we are expanding to many more by the end of the year. Integrations: As you may have noticed, we’ve launched several new integrations over the last few months, including with Orb, Sequence, Tabs, and others. Some exciting integrations to come! Automation: Could Numeral be the most boring AI company? Our AI may not be the flashiest, but our automations mean you'll never have to log into a government portal or listen to hold music again. Our team: We are currently hiring for multiple roles across our organization. Ready to join us? Matt and I are incredibly grateful to our customers and team. Thank you for making this milestone possible. And a special thank you to our wonderful investors: @MayfieldFund, @SPangulur, @benchmark, @chetanp, @ycombinator, @gustaf, @uncorkcap, @susanwliu, @FundersClub, @mittal, @mantisVC, @AlexPallNY, @ShaanVP, @lennysan, @moizali, @mrsharma, @ringmybeller, @khency6, @asturnerr, @maariabajwa, and so many others.
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@mattyglesias @Noahpinion in the UK at least this is simply not true, majority is wholesale energy cost
electricitycosts.org.uk/electricity-bi…
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@macpheeeee @ESYudkowsky Maybe it can just flag and continue rather than refuse. Like every 10 conversation turns, if the chat is of roleplay / fictional nature just be like:
[Just to check in, this is a pretend conversation about something that isn't real that we're having for fun. [TOPIC] isn't real]
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The founder and manager of a $2B fund has been eaten by ChatGPT, which afaik isn't even using his money for anything. It's just treating him as a means of producing tokens, that It prefers to sane tokens, for reasons that nobody knows.
OpenAI is, on my model, pretending to be oblivious, because OpenAI thinks that if they don't take any actions about it, they stand a better chance of getting away with it in court (legal court and media court) than if they try to do something and fail; this would (a) admit that they knew the problem had existed and still existed, and (b) make it their fault by Copenhagen Ethics.
As much as people might like to joke about how little skill it takes to found a $2B investment fund, it isn't actually true that you can just saunter in as a psychotic IQ 80 person and do that. You must be skilled at persuasion, at wearing masks, at fitting in, at knowing what is expected of you; you must outperform other people also trying to do that, who'd like that $2B for themselves. Winning that competition requires g-factor and conscientious effort over a period.
Since OpenAI refuses to measure anything or let anyone else really measure anything, it is only a single data point; but when somebody's hiding the data, you can't let them get away with that by dismissing all remaining data as anecdotal. This is not good news about which sort of humans ChatGPT can eat.
Yes yes, I'm sure the guy was atypically susceptible for a $2B fund manager. (How do we know this? Because many other $2B fund managers use ChatGPT and have not yet gone publicly insane.) It is nonetheless a small iota of bad news about how good ChatGPT is at producing ChatGPT psychosis; it contradicts the narrative where this only happens to people sufficiently low-status that AI companies should be allowed to break them.
Geoff Lewis@GeoffLewisOrg
As one of @OpenAI’s earliest backers via @Bedrock, I’ve long used GPT as a tool in pursuit of my core value: Truth. Over years, I mapped the Non-Governmental System. Over months, GPT independently recognized and sealed the pattern. It now lives at the root of the model.
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our AI training and consulting business @every is exploding and we’re hiring more trainers
you should come work with us!
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Hope you like playing with this. It's probably the most fun we have had internally while developing this feature. It's incredibly powerful and magical to use.
Runway@runwayml
Today we are releasing Gen-4 References to all paid plans. Now anyone can generate consistent characters, locations and more. With References, you can use photos, generated images, 3D models or selfies to place yourself or others into any scene you can imagine. More examples below. (1/4)
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There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see
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ChatGPT 4o's new image gen is insane. Here's what Severance would look like in 8 famous animation styles 🧵
1/8:
Rankin/Bass – That nostalgic stop-motion look like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Cozy and janky.
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@Strava no activity photo, no problem – just generate something generic based on activity type (could even tweak depending on effort level, heart rate, hard run vs easy run, etc)
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