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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • This is clearly the future despite the outrage here.

    There are at least 389 living languages with over 1M speakers. That alone means it’s impossible to reach some people and they get left out. Most of these languages dont even have enough professional voice actors to cover the bandwidth.

    There are thousands of books released every year. That’s impossible to cover even in English alone.

    Its an objective net good to have more accessible audio books and the privileged people who do care about this stuff can very much afford to vote with their wallets for non-ai voices.

    In fact since AI moat is so minimal this will very quickly be adapted by open source solution providing audio book access to millions if not billions of people to whom this was not an option. Its amazing.











  • Golden Mean - a famous philosphy by Aristotle has been really been big part of my adult life. It’s just incredibly handy and applicable to any situation.

    Aristotle’s Golden Mean is the idea that virtue lies between two extremes - excess and deficiency.

    We even see this idea expressed in contemporary sciences and sociology concepts like economic diminishing returns etc. and it really applies to everything. The best parts of life are trully in the middle and if you believe in only one life focusing on extremes is unlikely to get you anywhere interesting unless you’re very lucky/unlucky.

    I really recommend “How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question” by Michael Schur who is one of the creators of The Good Place and he evaluates many popular ethics and world model views from a contemporary point of view and its really well done if you’re interested in practical ethics.


  • Thailand legalized it not too long ago and I’d say it’s 90% positive.

    • loads of direct and indirect business opportunities
    • reduction in alcohol related issues. Stones are generally much more chill than drunks and impairement for vehicle operation etc is much lesser.

    There were a few populist issues like catching kids with weed etc but imo that’s actually a positive as people starting to actually talk about kid safety when previously they had all these drugs and worse.

    Personally I’d say the only danger is high concentrates which are illegal here and not very desired by the market either way. Mostly tourists and locals just want to smoke normal mid tier weed and enjoy the nature and thai food which is a win-win for everyone. I’ve seen some gravity bongs and a bit of oils (never seen anyone dab) but I’d say 90% of users just smoke mid tier 5$/g weed of 28% thc or so mostly mixed with tobacco too.

    My favorite change is just the culture shift. Stoned tourists are just so much nicer and the party scene has changed a lot around this.

    Legal weed as been huge for business here. Thai people are incredible entrepreneurs and were really quick to develop the industry to the point where the government tried to reverse legalization a year later but it was too late already.