Shawn Wang: preference

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…also, Facebook was building something back then, which is kind of ludicrous. Like, yeah, cool, you're building a social media app. Okay, how big can it be? Right? Like, how big can the internet be? You know what I mean? All of a sudden it's this behemoth. So it's like, yeah, the fact that it was built, again, trivially true, but the fact that it was built means it can be built by anyone else. So you, there is no such thing as like a absolute true moat. The question is how well, how quickly, how, you know, how much earlier than everyone else did you get there, and a million other things as well. Yeah, cool. The audio generation you you use 11labs. What makes a good podcast voice, right? You have a bunch of options that I clicked. And in my mind, I like a deep voice. I like the Morgan Freemans. You don't have that many deep voices. Do we want, like, is there such a thing as a high energy voice? You also insert breaths? 11labs has also advertised that they have a AI that can laugh, which I think is fun, important. Basically, what makes a good AI generated audio? Yeah, it's it depends again on the perspective. Everything is kind of answered with the frame of reference that you're looking at. If you like a deep voice, A, that's kind of a personal preference, and B, it just kind of depends on the thing. So if you, I don't know, let's do, say you're doing something like meditative or kind of affirmations or something that like encourages people every day. You probably do want a slow deep voice, something relaxing. You're doing the Hacker News recap, like, We picked Anna, who's like our default voice, because...…

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