Will Bench
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Will Bench
Coolness and
Denial is so much easier than looking inward, or backward, or forward; so much easier than change. But denial needs narratives, cover stories, and that is what conspiracy culture is providing.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
First the internet reduced the marginal cost of distributing content to zero. Now AI is reducing the marginal cost of producing content to zero.
Gordon Brander • LLMs and information post-scarcity
This is why I feel like people who are less cerebral and less aware of all of the ways in which they are imperfect, they just blast past everyone else. Because they're just doing things. And they get better so much quicker. So I think that's a message I want to give to the world. You're good to go. Just start doing things.
Alex Dobrenko • Get over your ick and do the thing
Action and
Attention isn't free. It's the most valuable thing you spend.
We have become archivists of the self, I thought, curators of a life half-lived. Each countless photograph of a wonder, of dinner, of a view, of our children, of the utter banality of our everyday lives, was not a memento, a way of remembering the things we did, but instead evidence of the poverty of our engagement with the present moment.
M. E. Rothwell • All Hail the Cloud
“Everything worthwhile is done with other people.”
