This seems like abnormal paranoia even for LW, maybe they’re getting worse. I really do they don’t drive too many people nuts with anxiety :<. Fun as it is to poke at them, cults are depressing things.

All media criticism must be done with rigorously updated priors. Baysian WatchMojo will bring the world’s most rational top 10 lists.

Classic Californian ideology. Get frustrated that an existing system isn’t perfect, and decide that the only solution is to build an entirely new system separated from the old one. Promise lots of nice stuff (walkable cities yay!) but you can be sure it’s only going to be available to the wealthy.

How are you going to make low-density med-style homes in CALIFORNIA cheap? 0% chance that the people doing this are in favour of rent controls. Once all the houses in the walkable areas get bought by the super rich, who’s going to work in the shops? Workers will get bussed in and you’ll be left with another rich person enclave that happens to have a street mall that you can walk to.

Also all of their promo-images were AI generated which bodes really well.

I suppose my big annoying soapbox opinion is one I’ve had with every other accidentally useful application of ChagGPT - why the hell are we using LLMs to do this? Splitting text into paragraphs can surely be done with a much simpler NLP model (i.e. one that doesn’t require a GPU per user), and it’s not like speech-to-text is new.

I imagine you could use a simple model with ‘good enough’ accuracy, and then have some basic keybinds to very quickly fix up the rest of it. Goto-next-paragraph, goto-previous-paragraph, move-sentence-forward, and move-sentence-backwards would do the job.

N.B. The general process is cool though! I’m neurodivergent like you and I’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking about how to make the actual process of note taking as seamless as possible. I’ve found that reducing the barriers between me and the metaphorical paper has really increased how likely I am to write my thoughts down.