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Rizz Apps

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Saw an app on X where you "set a conversational goal" in a text thread. After someone texts you, it then runs 1,000 possible conversations, and gives you 3-4 options to pick from that are most likely to bring you to your goal. It turns the spontaneity of conversation into multiple choice, optimized over a superficial, narrow aim. In the demo video, the goal was to “Rizze Annie up at Columbia’s hackathon.”

This is telos maxxing, but we should respect the process. The slow act of creation actually changes your conception of the problem in real-time, so you end up in domains you’d never imagined if you only instantly judged near-final outputs from your prompts.