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Aside: calling LLMs for translation “Babel Fish” is glossing over some of the major flaws in these tools work for translation, which is that they only sorta kinda work for languages with a large body of text in the training data set. For most languages in the world that don’t have huge pools of textual sludge all over the web, like Icelandic or Dan... See more

I asked Kelly about the tradeoffs of focusing on a single thing if you want to be great (which is what I had been getting at before). “Greatness is overrated,” he said, and I perked up. “It’s a form of extremism, and it comes with extreme vices that I have no interest in. Steve Jobs was a jerk. Bob Dylan is a jerk.”

Tippett:

What do you mean when you write that everyone is an artist?

O’Donohue:

I mean that everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. So it’s never as given as it actually looks; you’re always shaping it and building it. And I feel that from that perspective, that each of us is an artist.