LLMs and Reading

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The speaker extensively uses LLMs to gather background and context for preparing interviews with guests who have not written much. They find querying LLMs for information more useful than reading more books. They anticipate more people will use LLMs, leading to a need to diversify from only producing books, and they predict that giving more talks and personal appearances will become necessary as simply writing may not be enough in the future.

On this special year-in-review episode, Tyler and producer Jeff Holmes look back on the past year in the show and more, including the most popular and underrated episodes, the origins of the show as an occasional event series, the most difficult guests to prep for, the story behind EconGOAT.AI, Tyler's favorite podcast appearance of the year, and his evolving LLM-powered production function. They also answer listener questions and conclude with an assessment of Tyler's top pop culture recommendations from 2013 across movies, music, and books.

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Recorded December 6th, 2023.

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