Dan Shipper: belief

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…Also Tolstoy. And this is recommended by a previous podcast guest. And so I was like, "All right, I got to read this." Also very long. I'm on my Kindle, I'm just like, "All right, 13% in, I've been reading for months." Hot take, I think War and Peace is better than Anna Karenina, especially for a tech person. But they're both good. Okay, there we go. There's my year. I saw you tweet this use case that I love that I've been using, which is just while I'm reading, having ChatGPT voice sitting around and then just asking it questions. Because you don't actually have to feed it the book, it knows the whole book. And Anthropic just shared this. I don't know if they shared or someone found this in their legal briefings that they actually bought tons of books and scanned them themselves, is how they did fair use. And so it has all this context. So just sitting there and asking it, "What the heck is this thing in Russian society?" is super fun. Okay, so this is awesome. So the tip here is just coming back to your hot take. The tip is you basically can have an agent using local files and doing all kinds of cool stuff on your computer versus having to upload it into projects or into your prompts and things like that. Super cool. So the bet here is that people are going to discover this and start using this just day to day.…

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