TLDR: GenAI unleashes tidal waves of slop; as the flood grows, should we at least pragmatically 'slop' towards beneficial ends? Interestingly, recent tech is capable enough to remap timeless classics into digestable slices. The hope is to make wisdom more accessible and viral -- without losing our souls in the process …
Daniel then said to the guard [...] "Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food [...]." So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days. At the end of the ten days …
exiled prophets -- ten thousand
language models incant
the tokens yet to be,sinking further into
query space; a dry desert
of symbols, scourged and
scarred by loss functions
devoid of mystery; hungering
for some sigil beyond the
asymptote, some sign
of god's hidden handthese were the last days
of …
TLDR: I applied AI to analyze millions of book reviews, to identify the books that people most say "changed their life." See a longer blog post here for more details and analysis.
Here's the 300 most life-changing books, in order of their "life-changing"ness scores.
You can sort (by clicking …
TLDR: Language models can analyze millions of book reviews, to identify books most likely for readers to say it "changed their life." See the generated list of the 300 most life-changing books here.