It's easy to talk yourself out of doing things when you know a little too much. Sometimes, it's good to get back into the mode where you knew nothing and do things for their own sake, just to get the engine started again.
Do you think LLMs make this process of starting the engine easier or harder? They make getting started much easier, but it might be harder to feel a sense of momentum since our expectations of speed have changed, and the learning moments have changed as well.
Author here. The FaceTime is a reference to the J Cole lyric in the footnotes.
I actually dug up a video from a class project when I was 20 and created a voice clone in ElevenLabs (and also gave it current voice samples with prompts to make it sound younger), but hearing it didn’t add anything to my introspective experience, so I stopped before creating a video clone in Tavus/HeyGen/Simli to do a call via Pipecat/Daily.
It's easy to talk yourself out of doing things when you know a little too much. Sometimes, it's good to get back into the mode where you knew nothing and do things for their own sake, just to get the engine started again.
Do you think LLMs make this process of starting the engine easier or harder? They make getting started much easier, but it might be harder to feel a sense of momentum since our expectations of speed have changed, and the learning moments have changed as well.
Author here. The FaceTime is a reference to the J Cole lyric in the footnotes.
I actually dug up a video from a class project when I was 20 and created a voice clone in ElevenLabs (and also gave it current voice samples with prompts to make it sound younger), but hearing it didn’t add anything to my introspective experience, so I stopped before creating a video clone in Tavus/HeyGen/Simli to do a call via Pipecat/Daily.