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by alwa
7 days ago
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It sounds like you and I share the author’s view that, for all its sparkle, Claude is a thin substitute for the company of interesting people. What might it look like to lower the barriers to that kind of situation, to extend that extreme luxury to more people—ideally to anybody who decides they’d rather lead interesting lives-of-the-mind themselves? (Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959090 [3 days ago / 469 / 212] ) |
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AI as salonnière. It's not enough to get lots of interesting people in a room (as at a meetup). That merely gets you to "there are so many valuable conversations latent in this room... and basically none of them will happen".
Also beyond the room. AI as ambient conversational matchmaking serendipity, weaving connections - "btw, that person in line with you also loves foul-weather sailing".
Years back, I was expecting this to rapidly become a pervasive app category. I'm unclear on why it hasn't.
In interactive lecturing (clickers) with peer instruction, there's an idea that people log in with seat location, and based on who understands or is confused about what, and having a record of past interactions, the system optimizes the fruitfulness of each peer assignment pairing "Alice, turn and discuss this question with Bob sitting to your rear left".