Check for duplicates before posting.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35305561" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35305561</a>
I have tried my best to get into podcasts, but am turned off by every single one being multiple hours long. Even though Lex is an outlier, the average show still has 1-2 hour episodes, sometimes releasing multiple times a week. I have tried my best to find quality ones with a 20-30 minute limit, but they don't seem to exist. Why is that the case? Is there really that much information to share? Or are they just not bothered to sit and edit their work? Do people really have the time to listen to all of them?
If you like this kind of thing, I did one a week ago. <a href="https://youtu.be/vYhtYjXNBCU" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/vYhtYjXNBCU</a> It’ll be interesting to diff the two and see where we diverge.<p>Any progress on automatic transcriptions? Seems like Whisper should be able to give a readable version of both. This one’s a bit hard to listen to since it’s not a YouTube link, which means you can’t use your phone for other purposes for two hours.
I avoid “celebrity” podcasts and rather listen to researchers with real experience in the trenches. For LLMs I’ve recently liked listening to Ilya Sutskever on Clearer Thinking and Eye on AI.<p>Anyone recommend any others in this vein, on this topic?
He seems to think the world can absorb higher programmer productivity without destroying jobs. It's still one person's opinion but it was nice to hear.
I watched it. It was overall a good interview, and I think Altman comes off as much less of a woke nazi than some have assumed he is. I think the political bias issue is one that will become less important over time, and Altman also seems to understand why it pisses people off. I liked the quote about Steve Jobs adding a handle to the computer because you shouldn't trust anything you can't throw out a window.<p>I was also pleasantly surprised at how open he sounds to things like open sourcing the model weights.<p>Overall, he seems fairly grounded in reality and I came away from the interview feeling less judgmental of the guy than I did before it.<p>Lex Fridman remains as annoying as ever.