David Israel
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David Israel
@RealDavidIsrael
Workflow Guru @ https://t.co/yLbrJ8VRrd 🎶'Heartificial Intelligence' now streaming everywhere. I am a prophet in the wilderness, crying 'Prepare the way of YHWH'



Young men, it is completely normal and natural to want a wife who has never slept with other men. Don’t let them convince you it isn’t.




“How can I get a quick start on writing a new book?” Embrace cliches. You don't have time to develop your characters or milieu, or set yourself any challenges as a writer. Getting crap on paper is your primary goal. Still, try to do a good job of writing — snappy dialogue, quirky minor characters, a compelling dilemma (to which you already know the solution). Writing better takes a little longer. Invent more deeply. Complicate your storyline. Disguise your use of commonplace tropes. Your goal was to start quickly — but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to create a positive reading experience. As for the topic? Choose a character who suffers greatly, undergoes great challenges, and doesn't die. Set her in a milieu that you know well enough to write without much research. Create a few characters who do not just exist for your convenience, but have agendas of their own. Give your main character a reason to keep going despite all dangers and risks. Give your main character a job. Even if she hates her job, we need to see her working.








Why did @elonmusk pause the creator revenue changes scheduled for Thursday? We don't need foreigners influencing our political conversations here and then getting financially rewarded for it.






OpenAI's Sora team is now working on world-models - they prioritize longer-term world simulation research especially as it pertains to robotics. tl;dr what we know so far: - Sora has been cancelled because they needed the compute for their new LLM - they renamed product organization to "AGI Deployment" - the LLM (codename Spud) is "very very strong" and "accelerates the economy" - release in a few weeks - Sam is going to focus on "raising capital, supply chains and “building datacenters at unprecedented scale” my take: To me, it really sounds like they are preparing for the IPO and will make AGI official beforehand.

















