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Pieter Levels: belief

20 Aug 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

“I have a mute board list as well, so I mute politics stuff because I don’t really want it on my feed, and I think I’ve muted so much that now my feed is good.”

— Pieter Levels

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Speaker
Pieter Levels
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
20 Aug 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Yeah. And so, following AI people, especially AI people that only post technical content has been really good because then I just look at them, and then I go down rabbit holes of learning new papers that have been published, or good repost, or just any kind of cool demonstration of stuff, and the kind of things that they retweet, and that’s the rabbit hole. I go, and I’m learning and I’m inspired, all that kind of stuff. It’s been tough. It’s been tough to control that. It’s difficult. You need to manage your platforms. I have a mute board list as well, so I mute politics stuff because I don’t really want it on my feed, and I think I’ve muted so much that now my feed is good. I see interesting stuff. But the fact that you need to modify, you need to mod your app, your social media platform just to function and not be toxic for you for your mental health. That’s a problem. It should be doing that for you. It’s some level of automation. That would be interesting. I wish I could access X and Instagram through API easier.…

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