In one of the WhatsApp communities I belong to, I noticed that some people use ChatGPT to express their thoughts (probably asking it to make their messages more eloquent or polite or whatever).

Others respond in the same style. As a result, it ends up with long, multi-paragraph messages full of em dashes.

Basically, they are using AI as a proxy to communicate with each other, trying to sound more intelligent to the rest of the group.

A friend of mine does this as English as second language and his tone was always misconstrued. I'd bug him about his slop, but he'll take that over getting his tone misconstrued. I get it

LOL ... in whatssap! ... sorry, we're fucked ...

This. Working with plain notes during the last 10 years and it could not be better.

Did you try org-mode?

If the person you're replying to indicated they are very happy with their setup ("it could not be better"), why suggest they try something else?

There's finite time in life, and productivity tool "improvements" have a diminishing ROI, why waste time improving what they already said is very good for them?

This is the most impressive thing I've seen in years.

Pavel Durov (founder of Telegram) totally nailed this concept.

He pays special attention to the speed of application. The Russian social network VK worked blazingly fast. The same is about Telegram.

I always noticed it but not many people verbalized it explicitly.

But I am pretty sure that people realize it subconsciously and it affects user behaviour metrics positively.

Telegram is pretty slow, both the web interface and the Android app. For example, reactions to a message always take a long time to load (both when leaving one, and when looking at one). Just give me emoji, I don't need your animated emoji!

Can't agree.

These operations are near instant for me on telegram mobile and desktop.

It's the fastest IM app for me by a magnitude.

I considered using AI to evaluate more complex cases, beyond merely counting lines of code. However, the idea might be somewhat naive.

I think that makes sense, AI could be used to evaluate and score the importance of contributions imho. In fact this is probably a business idea in itself...

I like the design of the blog a lot

I think that the project has a potential.

I am a big fun of Wikipedia and sometimes TikTok (a "guilty pleasure"). I would be happy to have an app/web site like this but with

- more smart feed based on your activity/attention (was mentioned in other comments);

- maybe more fancy way to present information (not sure if it is feasible to implement). Currently just a text snippet and image do not seem like super engaging.

Here is the original link to Sam Altman's statement

https://x.com/alexisohanian/status/1752753792058294725?s=46&...

I'm just trying to elaborate on Sam Altman's idea that one-person unicorns are comping https://x.com/alexisohanian/status/1752753792058294725?s=46&...

It is free to say things on interviews and in the media, while your own time and how you spend it is non renewable. If you can make ends meet and you're spending your days on work you enjoy, that's the most anyone can ask for.

I am assuming that lots of things will be automated (maybe even using AI). Like the legal things, support, payment processing and so on.

I'm just trying to elaborate on Sam Altman's idea https://fortune.com/2024/02/04/sam-altman-one-person-unicorn...