Not a dig at Karpathy, I like him and the thing is nice to have, but the amount of glaze he receives for essentially a curated video playlist sourced off of a pre-configured list is unprecedented, to the point where people are ready to praise him for the way he sneezes.

You are missing the whole historical context, part of which is explicitly mentioned in the blog post which is the submission:

YouTube: repository of immense value; partly disastrous implementation; infrapolitical attacks.

This site is a real contribution to the solution of a swamp you do not seem to have perceived.

Yes.

And its still true that its amplified more because Karpathy released it. Id agree its a pretty mundane idea and product.

If Warren Buffet would do a video on how he clicks through a few stocks on Google Finance (I know he doesn't) for a minute or two, it would be more interesting to "most people" than any other anonymous pro finance dude, despite their incredible expertise with Google Finance (or Tradeview, or Bloomberg, etc.). The person behind an action does matter, as harsh as that is to some. The person represents an aggregate of proven past achievements, and therefore, we tend to value that in when checking out new things they do.

I think you are missing the point. A person who has built trust through their work will surely attract praise, respect or at least curious gaze. I am sure most things you own, follow or give importance to also have some known person or brand behind them.

Consistency is key. Just showing your foot at the door regularly matters. People remember the name - it becomes the brand.

Wait until you take a look at X. People from Vercel / CloudFlare can essentially build todo list and get funding

Just a rumor, but I heard it could be connected to the Binance hack. Unplausible, bit the implications of that are beyond horrifying

There is a number of things one could do to reduce the share of made up info in the generated text, yet at the end of the day, to guarantee 100% factual accuracy of the informal prose output, a human has to go and manually check every single claim. No other way, just the nature of LLMs.

A recently released tool by devault: https://devault-ascii.pages.dev/ascii-generator/

Its not as elegant or ethereal as the hand-crafted stuff, but for us mere mortals, with little to no artistic ability it could prove useful in certain design endeavors.

Holding decentralized currency on centralized exchanges defeats the purpose of it being decentralized in the first place. Which is why we saw a massive adoption of DeFi and DEXs across the whole industry. CEXs (centralized exchanges) have been getting hacked left and right since their very inception much before LLMs even existed, let alone gained sufficient capabilities to perform such attacks. Mostly due to human error and social engineering, yet they remain the industry entry point for like 80% of both retail and institutions.

He is prof X after all, has been hacking people's minds as long as I have been alive