Dylan Field: belief

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…Before we get to a very exciting lightning round, I want to take us to AI Corner. What's a way you've found to use AI in your day-to-day life or work that's really interesting, maybe helpful for people to learn from? Last time we chatted, you told me about Websim, which was this wild crazy app that I love. I don't know, is there anything along those lines or just something you can share about AI in your life? Beyond the obvious, I think there are certain domains where it does really well. I definitely oftentimes will ask an AI model about a legal question now before I call a lawyer, because I find it's not replacing my call with a great lawyer, but it does inform my point of view. You have to be careful about when you do that. Your conversation with AI is not the same as your conversation with a lawyer, but I think that any place where you're going to consult an expert but can come in more informed, that is interesting. Another thing that's not day to day, but I find it's very good at, and this is underexplored, is whenever you have a space of possibility, and there are many dimensions to that space, so let's say I'm trying to write fiction. I want to go generate a character, for example. There's a hundred personality traits that this character can have. Well, I could manually pick from a list myself or I can say, okay, randomly pick six out of this list of a hundred and then give me, basically for every attribute, the full table of, toggle that attribute, positive, negative. Then, all the combinations of that and give it a title and give it a description. Now, I've got a full table for those six traits, the entire possibility space of what that character sample might look like. It just builds intuition about a possibility space in a different way if you do that. That's something I think is a process that people could learn from and adapt more. Are you telling us you're writing a book?…

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