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AI has made writing faster than reading for the first time in human history.
Anyone can write a 10-page document in the time it takes to write a 10-word prompt.
But it still takes just as much time to read a 10-page document as before.
The result is that people are now spending much more time consuming (reading) than producing (writing).
And all writing is increasingly the same.
My sense is that it’s important for humans continue to write without AI.
And to read writing written by humans.
Kind of like we’ve seen a trend towards people eating whole foods with no artificial preservatives, I think we’ll see a trend towards people reading human writing with no artificial intelligence.
Anyone can write a 10-page document in the time it takes to write a 10-word prompt.
But it still takes just as much time to read a 10-page document as before.
The result is that people are now spending much more time consuming (reading) than producing (writing).
And all writing is increasingly the same.
My sense is that it’s important for humans continue to write without AI.
And to read writing written by humans.
Kind of like we’ve seen a trend towards people eating whole foods with no artificial preservatives, I think we’ll see a trend towards people reading human writing with no artificial intelligence.
I am not aware of anyone on the internet who has been shipping interesting and creative work as prolifically as @internetphysics over the last several months.
If I was a venture capitalist, I would write him a check expeditiously.
If I was a venture capitalist, I would write him a check expeditiously.
A recap of everything I made in October!
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On digital minimalism:
The best hack I have found in the last several years in the category of digital minimalism is to change my phone’s default home from my pocket to a drawer in my bathroom.
This works well for me partly because I wear an Apple Watch. That enables me to remain reachable, responsive, and able to do phone-like things like make calls or listen to podcasts when I’m out for a walk (assuming I have left my phone at home).
I personally have little to no interest in being completely unplugged by default or for extended periods of time on a daily basis at this point in my life, so the Apple Watch is key for me.
I’ve done this on and off in waves depending on the season of life I am in but for the longest stretch I averaged under an hour of daily phone screen time for several months in a row. Some weeks were under an hour in total.
As Vitalik describes with his WiFi-only phone, I experience some mostly minor inconveniences which all feel well worthwhile in exchange for regaining my intentionality and getting a ton of time back in my days, among other things.
The best hack I have found in the last several years in the category of digital minimalism is to change my phone’s default home from my pocket to a drawer in my bathroom.
This works well for me partly because I wear an Apple Watch. That enables me to remain reachable, responsive, and able to do phone-like things like make calls or listen to podcasts when I’m out for a walk (assuming I have left my phone at home).
I personally have little to no interest in being completely unplugged by default or for extended periods of time on a daily basis at this point in my life, so the Apple Watch is key for me.
I’ve done this on and off in waves depending on the season of life I am in but for the longest stretch I averaged under an hour of daily phone screen time for several months in a row. Some weeks were under an hour in total.
As Vitalik describes with his WiFi-only phone, I experience some mostly minor inconveniences which all feel well worthwhile in exchange for regaining my intentionality and getting a ton of time back in my days, among other things.
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I’ve long wondered how we’ll input information into the screenless devices that will eventually replace today’s smartphones and computers.
These devices should allow us to interface more seamlessly with AI while severing the tie between knowledge workers and their desks, freeing them to work more effectively on the move.
Keyboards never seemed like the answer (though they’re still being tried for cutting-edge devices like the Vision Pro), and audio input, while underrated, still seems too slow and impractical in environments with multiple people.
If I’m reading Elon’s quoted tweet correctly, Neuralink’s Telepathy now seems like the most likely solution to this problem, which feels absurd even to type.
The product is called Telepathy, and it sounds like it enables literal telepathy, or “high-speed communication with computers or humans simply by thinking.”
Elon goes on to state (and emphasize with “read that sentence again”) that “output bandwidth will vastly exceed the fastest human speech or typing in a few years.”
Considering all of the amazing inventions Elon’s companies have created (i.e. flying cars, rockets, etc.), it seems worth highlighting that he’s using “read that sentence again” for this particular invention.
I think that speaks to the magnitude of the impact he envisions this having.
Elon is essentially predicting that Telepathy will render keyboards and audio input as obsolete as computers made typewriters, among other effects.
His companies in combination now need to be considered frontrunners to build the next generation of computing platforms with iPhone-level success.
These devices should allow us to interface more seamlessly with AI while severing the tie between knowledge workers and their desks, freeing them to work more effectively on the move.
Keyboards never seemed like the answer (though they’re still being tried for cutting-edge devices like the Vision Pro), and audio input, while underrated, still seems too slow and impractical in environments with multiple people.
If I’m reading Elon’s quoted tweet correctly, Neuralink’s Telepathy now seems like the most likely solution to this problem, which feels absurd even to type.
The product is called Telepathy, and it sounds like it enables literal telepathy, or “high-speed communication with computers or humans simply by thinking.”
Elon goes on to state (and emphasize with “read that sentence again”) that “output bandwidth will vastly exceed the fastest human speech or typing in a few years.”
Considering all of the amazing inventions Elon’s companies have created (i.e. flying cars, rockets, etc.), it seems worth highlighting that he’s using “read that sentence again” for this particular invention.
I think that speaks to the magnitude of the impact he envisions this having.
Elon is essentially predicting that Telepathy will render keyboards and audio input as obsolete as computers made typewriters, among other effects.
His companies in combination now need to be considered frontrunners to build the next generation of computing platforms with iPhone-level success.
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It enables high-speed communication with computers or humans simply by thinking. Output bandwidth will vastly exceed the fastest human speech or typing in a few years. Read that sentence again.
