Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

A New Kind of Search

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Today I got my invitation to try out the new SearchGPT, which is OpenAI’s attempt at creating some kind of revenue-generating market for itself. I was prepared to hate it, but in an exhaustive 30 second testing session, it’s actually pretty cool.

The first thing I wanted to try, naturally, is to see if a query which SHOULD bring up Slope would do any such thing. I asked if there were any websites that specialized in short selling stocks.

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Terence McKenna

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If you asked me whether or not I’d like to watch a one-hour video of a mushroom-munching hippie obsessed with psychedelics and the Mayan calendar, I’d have given you a hard no, but I’d have been wrong. I stumbled upon this fellow whom I’d never heard about but is clearly brilliant. It’s worth listening to it, if for no other reason than he has a marvelously soothing voice.