What are your best/most interesting use cases for AI right now? Some of mine: 1) When I'm having trouble getting started on a column, I'll ask GPT to write it. I never like the result, and thinking through what I don't like kick-starts my own writing process 2) Fact-checking/critiquing columns I've already written 3) Research. Yeah, it's boring, but I use it a lot. Though I never rely on summaries, always read the links and work off them. 4) Finding places to eat by asking it where @tylercowen would eat in a given place. 5) Setting up multi-stop trips by giving it the places I have to go and then asking it to find, say, a drugstore along the way (works better than Google maps for me) 6) Conlanging for my unpublishable science fiction novel 7) Minor home repairs 8) Reading companion: I frequently stop and ask it for word etymologies, historical and biographical background, etc. 9) Suggesting stuff to read based on stuff I already read and liked 10) Brainstorming headlines, which I am terrible at writing. 11) Making absurd pictures to pep up friends who are feeling low, including myself. 12) Answering absurd hypotheticals, like could Lion-o beat He-Man in a fight, or which person at the dinner table would make the best bomber pilot. What are you guys using it for?

Every single day RE flippers are moving into the trades. They typically have the contacts to get work done, so it makes sense... but that is the stage of the flipping market we are in in So Cal (quit unless its a great deal)

Arthur Hugh Clough, 'Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth' #poetry

Wow, exciting message from Audrey at the Costco recruiting team this morning. Apparently, my profile caught their attention through multiple recruiting platforms and they believe I'd be a good fit for our current part-time remote job opportunity.

CORRECTION: I misread the news item, 80% of membership have pledged to vote to support a strike. We regret the error.

Well, this is bizarre: My favorite is the "fact check" that insists I have not been at the Washington Post for 7 years, because I joined in March 2018, and as of 2023, that's only five years.

LA Times union has apparently voted to authorize a strike. I'm all for journalists getting paid more, but I don't really see how this ends well for them.

More and more people are saying LINGORM ONLY YOU EP5

🔥 Blistering critique from @asymmetricinfo on Nvidia selling H20 chips to China: “They’re giving us 15% of the rope we’re selling to hang ourselves…If you were strategic, you would in no way say ‘Sure, export semiconductors to the country that is our leading competitor in the AI race, but give us 15%.’ What is that? It's not a strategic decision…There is no explanation for this that makes any damn sense.” (Source: @thedispatch Podcast)

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