Limitless Day One Review
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Today I spoke for 2 hours with @jameszhou02, a really good enginifounder.
Natrually I had to give @limitlessai a spin, as an avid @RewindAI user and @dsiroker fanboy.
Some bugs first:
The summary was surprisingly really good, but missed some key points.
For example, we discussed whether big tech exists. will help found a startup.
James and I had slightly different perspectives (which we both respect), but our 20-minute discussion was simplified into this one block.
It misunderstood some jargon and didn't even understand popular jargon like ChatGPT.
It'd be great if I could add personal Jargons in a user-friendly way.
p.s. The companies transcribed wrong here are "Moloco" and "Grammarly"
Also a bug in running RAG on the same recording clip over and over.
We only talked about Grammarly's team selection for a couple of minutes, but at least 30+ sections are on Grammarly and Personal Agency.
We also did not talk about game-related projects.
TIL there's a city named Brammerton
The transcript tab is not only non-chronological, but also mixed up. It starts with a sentence at 101m, then jumps to one at 34m.
I must acknowledge that the app is surprisingly polished for a day-one product, and I'll daily drive this.
Ideally, I hope Limitless and Rewind merge into 1 product, because now my data is split across tools.
I even preordered the Pendant last year, guess I made a good bet!
If that ever happens, it'll also be interesting to see how Limitless handles the data migration with Rewind.
Not many service updates require you to upload 100 gigs of videos.
I still trust the Limitless team that they'll make it as smooth as possible
I have a huge trust in Rewind because they didn't just jump on a hype train.
They actually thought of a good use case of AI:
Eidetic Memory Devices.
Humans don't need $700 pins to shoot lasers or replace your phone.
We don't need pins to ask about the weather or how tall the Empire State Building is.
That was Humane's mistake. They didn't think about what "additional value" they should/could bring.
We need pins to get eidetic memory. Nothing more.
That's the additional value these new form factors should/could bring.
And I think @dsiroker is one of the very few people who actually understands this.
I am also really excited about how Limitless will change Memexing, or Digital Gardening, on the web.
Notable tools in this space is @RoamResearch and @obsdmd.
I think Memexing is the most "practical" way to achieve eidetic memory, so far.
I still don't fully see how AI will help Memexing; all implementations so far have just made my memory worse
It's cuz if you don't think in your own words, you typically forget things really quickly
But one thing is for sure is that...
We will either
① find a sweet spot in between "brain-busywork makes you remember" and "go full on brain-autopilot"
② or come up with an ingenious UX to both let AI do the brain-busy work and also make us remember things better.
And I'm betting that Limitless would do one of the two, or at least help us get there.
They know the problem they should solve.
I want to close my thread with a quote from Ted Chiang that addresses the social implications of remembering everything.
"As someone whose identity was built on organic memory, I'm threatened by the prospect of removing subjectivity from our recall of events. I used to think it could be valuable for individuals to tell stories about themselves, valuable in a way that it couldn't be for cultures, but I'm a product of my time, and times change.
We can't prevent the adoption of digital memory any more than oral cultures could stop the arrival of literacy, so the best I can do is look for something positive in it. And I think I've found the real benefit of digital memory. The point is not to prove you were right; the point is to admit you were wrong.
Digital memory will not stop us from telling stories about ourselves. As I said earlier, we are made of stories, and nothing can change that.
What digital memory will do is change those stories from fabulations that emphasize our best acts and elide our worst, into ones that--I hope--acknowledge our fallibility and make us less judgmental about the fallibility of others."
--The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling, Ted Chiang (2018)