Andrei Stoica

We’re seeing the progressive unbundling of human agency in memory creation, and I think it’s happening in clear phases.

The first phase started a very long time ago. Cameras, voice recorders, and digital notebooks were primitive tools for documentation. Sure, each of these tools were enhanced by technology. We chose what to capture and the tools... See more

“Good haircuts feel good. I mean this, for starters, in the tactile sense. A barber who’s nice with it handles your skull assuredly; tilts it this way and that; sprays some mist on it, maybe shampoos it; runs the tines of a comb across your scalp; then snips, slices and buzzes away the dead weight of hair that was dragging down your dome. You step

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The social sector acts on culture-level concerns in the domain of governance. One example is the sudden mid-20th-century dominance of "historic preservation" of buildings, pushed by organizations like the National Trust for Historic Preservation in America and English Heritage and the National Trust in Britain. Through them, culture declared that... See more

I've been thinking about Venture aesthetics a lot Most are nothing burgers, but there are a few that are shifting or are clearly stuck in the mud So I've been collecting website screenshots to categorize them I'm curious how they'll change over these next few... See more

But it's also true that right now is a great time to do something ambitious. Robin Hanson calls the present "the dreamtime", following a concept in Aboriginal myths: the time when the future world order and its values are still liquid, not yet set in stone.

What’s going on here is, fairly obviously, some combination of simple old-guy aesthetic NIMBYism (“those massive solar fields”) and right-wing culture wars. The latter has been caused by decades of Americans seeing energy technology as being fundamentally about climate , rather than about energy itself . In a post back in December, I wrote the... See more