Andrew McCluskey

OpenAI released GPT-5 today. The head of ChatGPT said, “The vibes of this model are really good.” That’s reassuring.

Facebook, with its explicit attachment to the real world graph and its enforcement of a single public identity, is just a poor structural fit for the more complex social capital requirements of the young.

Culture describes the conventions of a community, which guide individuals into regular behaviors and provide communal meanings and values.

Crucially, these systems provided temporal insulation. New ideas were protected from immediate suppression or premature assimilation long enough to circulate, stabilize, and eventually become mundane. That protective function allows heretical thought to survive long enough to become common sense.