FaceTime with My 19-Year-Old Self

(davidtran.me)

4 points | by rickyyean 10 hours ago ago

3 comments

  • iamwil 9 hours ago

    It's easy to talk yourself out of doing things when you know a little too much. Sometimes, it's good to get back into the mode where you knew nothing and do things for their own sake, just to get the engine started again.

    • dtran 8 hours ago

      Do you think LLMs make this process of starting the engine easier or harder? They make getting started much easier, but it might be harder to feel a sense of momentum since our expectations of speed have changed, and the learning moments have changed as well.

  • dtran 10 hours ago

    Author here. The FaceTime is a reference to the J Cole lyric in the footnotes.

    I actually dug up a video from a class project when I was 20 and created a voice clone in ElevenLabs (and also gave it current voice samples with prompts to make it sound younger), but hearing it didn’t add anything to my introspective experience, so I stopped before creating a video clone in Tavus/HeyGen/Simli to do a call via Pipecat/Daily.