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This is the first time I’ve seen a WSB fellow wise enough to recognize he got incredibly lucky and then decided to get really conservative with his winnings. Good on you, sir! Most other WSB types would just keep trying to double their money until they were at $0 again.
I’ve got something really special for you today. It’s me. Specifically, me from over 40 years ago. By a curious set of circumstances, I laid my hand on a news program from Los Angeles (KABC-TV) from 1983 which featured your hero. I’ve chopped off most of the surrounding material (and very deliberately chopped out a portion in which the interviewer asks me if I’m a genius………) but this is quite the blast from the past:
Whoa, this is quite cool! See, I gripe about AI a lot, but only because I think the valuations of stocks like NVDA are beyond insane. There are segments of the AI business, however, I think are tremendously exciting. Image generation, for example, is like magic to me, and I just discovered another one this morning (in my quest to create the audio version of my revised novel) which is a real kick: instead of using a robot voice for text-to-speech, it uses my OWN voice.
Click here to listen. You’ll see the Play button in the lower left corner. It isn’t precisely like me, but it is sure close, and take it from someone who has done voice work before, this is a HUGE relief that this exists! Recording the written word with one’s voice SUCKS, trust me!
But I thought old people liked things all hot and stuff, like Arizona?
