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Ed Zetron

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
350 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

If they were like, we created the Slack clone, here it is, and it was bug-free.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It actually just worked and we're like, we have done this.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Because theoretically, if this SaaSpocalypse story was true, which it's not, that AI is going to replace all software, if they actually did that, because someone from Anthropic just left the board of Figma and they created a Figma clone and the stock went down because the market's run by toddlers.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

If they were like, we've released a clone of Microsoft Word.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Like, we've done Anthropic Word, and we now sell that as part of our subscription.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

That would actually be quite something.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

But the thing is, they're not.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It gets back to the old talking point of, if they made AGI, why would they sell it?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Wouldn't it be a massive competitive advantage to keep this?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And I think you're right.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I think maybe Mythos is...

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Not as powerful as they say, and they've just had to dress it up.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

But it gets back to the thing of the directionally true media coverage.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It's like, well, this is scary, right?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I mean, that system card's like 180 pages long.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I haven't got all day.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I have to write three 100-word blogs a week.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I couldn't possibly spend time reading this.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I've seen this word used a lot.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I think it's good for me and the listeners to hear the exact definition.