listen here big guy, today is the day you're switching to Arc browser. no more excuses

a couple of weeks ago i bought an old-school portable voice recorder, like the ones we used to use to record classes before the iphone been using it while going on smartphones-less walks. i talk to it with no structure, just following my train of thoughts as they come, and when i come back home i transcribe my rambles with whisper, summarize/synthesize with an llm, and work on the very few good ideas in a more focused mental state it's well understood that movement improves thinking, and that the unfocused, bored state of mind can foster high quality ideas. the issue is that every time i go on a walk, my smartphone puts me in a focused, cognitively engaged state. no matter what i try. i'm addicted to mental stimulation, and constantly having the internet in my pocket simply hurts my ability to think crisply and *widely* i don't think it's a coincidence that @paulg always preaches the benefits of walks, but doesn't bring the internet with him. anecdotal, but telling on the other hand though, issue with smartphone-less walks is that i just forget stuff. i feel the constant need to take notes. probably a byproduct of my internet addiction. and so back to square 1 until today there was not really a good solution to my problem. luckily, not anymore whisper + any decently sized llm is already good enough to bring order to my incoherent rambling, making the transition from unfocused to focused thinking *seamless*. can't overstate how huge this is for me this *feels* artificial intelligence. it's an intelligent tool, making sense of my voice memos. it's kinda wild there may be a hardware side project somewhere in there (could be fun to put together with a raspberry), but with a modest $30 investment and open source tools i can run locally i already solved an issue that has been bothering me for years i think we just began to explore the impact of deep learning on tools for thought

No one uses it in spoken English. It's one of those words like "burgeoning" that people only use when they're writing and want to sound clever.

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