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Finally finished this behemoth, there are some interesting concepts but nothing that was really new to me. The casual writing style was very hard for me: asides within asides within asides; lots of "humorous" anecdotes without connection to the point; and an utterly random organization structure. I could not even begin to write a summary outline, and I'm left with the impression that he had violent outbursts every time an editor suggested ways to communicate more clearly. Most bizarre was the author's constant contempt and condescending to his reader, as if a hostile dedicated materialist would ever pick this up 🤣

If anyone is interested in this, don't read it. The author has created an "AI Guy" that can explain the concepts in a fraction of the time.

https://ai-guy.consciousnesshub.org/landing

Affinity**For*Disobedience 1mo ago 💬 1

You should have just harked it.

i.e hark.now

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Kip Ashlynn 1mo ago 💬 2

I honestly don't trust AI to summarize anything for me. I've experimented with it a bit and when summarizing my own work it often changes things enough that the summary supports an entirely different thesis. When summarizing things like Robert Becker it glosses over what I found most interesting about that work and focused on really basic mainstream things.

I think that's why I do recommend Campbell's AI Guy because it isn't a black box where you put the work to find out what the majority of mediocre thinkers would say about it, rather it's built around his work specifically. So it answers you in a way that Thomas Campbell himself would answer 99.99% of the time (his words).

Affinity**For*Disobedience 1mo ago

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I completely emphasize with your deep skepticism of AI summarization basically I've built hark. now as a side project because all existing Solutions were so bad.

The core issue is that summarizing a book with a common AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Grok, it will just spit out a 5 minute summary for 8 hours of content (typical reading time of an average book), and strip it completely of its style and essence.

What I built with Hark is a different approach.

First we aim for a 12:1 ratio, this means that to summarize 8 hours of reading, the summary is still 45 minute of reading, it's still somewhat of a deep dive and requires effort and commitment to read through.

Secondly it doesn't "dumb down" the content. It aims to faithfully incorporate the user's style, tone, vocabulary into the summary so that you get the feel of the book form, not just substance.

Finally it's designed to maintain the specific details, examples and anecdotes that authors often to highlight their main ideas, and it's usually those little details that really color a book and make stick with us.

I'm telling you all this because I first built hark for myself and I'm personally very satisfied with the result and I'm wanting to share with others (right now it's free and I'm not really in a rush to monitize). Just want to get people's feedback

Here is an example of how a book summarization looks like in hark

https://hark.now/view/ZDM0N

Please free to try it out for yourself or tell me a specific book, I'll process it and send you the link.

Kip Ashlynn 1mo ago

I will check it out!