We’re very close to a time when, if you’re chatting with someone and they drop an incredibly clever bon mont or make an impossibly apt literary allusion, you’ll discreetly check for an earpiece.

My wife just got back after three days out of town, and it’s a relief not to be parenting solo. So much easier when I know I’m not the only one ignoring the kids.

First day of English lit our professor said "What's the most famous opening line of a novel?" and I immediately blurted out “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel," then looked down at the syllabus and saw that we were reading Moby-Dick.

Someone who's been writing for a while can point to their pre-ChatGPT writing as evidence that they didn't use it. What will the next generation do? I assume there's already a browser extension for dribbling text into a Google Doc so the granular history isn't reliable.

Near-2yo’s primary obsessions are: - Spray bottles - Cooking - “A working truck,” ie any vehicle being used for garbage pickup, construction, etc. Kids can’t get enough of man’s dominion over nature.

Looking for something unrelated, I stumbled on something I forgot I wrote in 2019, about how we should all prepare to see a lot more AI-generated mistakes. Here's the part where I clearly hadn't read Attention Is All You Need:

You should cherish every funny bad transcription because in a few years they won’t exist. Earnings call transcript I’m reading right now just referenced “Google Meat.”

Google processes 980tr tokens per month. At the price per token GPT-3 charged at launch, this would cost ~$70bn/month, or over 2x Google’s monthly revenue, for much lower-quality outputs. LLM deflation is happening fast!

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