Ben Cuan

can't shake the feeling that the only real way to prevent people from getting sucked into the digital slop vortex is to make the physical world more beautiful, nourishing, convivial, kind

Under the law of comparative advantage, even if AI is better than humans at everything, any relative differences between the human and AI profile of skills creates a basis of trade and specialization between humans and AI.

I recognize these attempts, yet I know for a fact that the internet — this home and caretaker and teacher and friend will never return to its prior state. Everything only experiences infancy once. But in the same way you return to your hometown after years of absence and see it evolve and reconstitute itself, the vestiges of beauty on the web have... See more

most people’s problems are not software-shaped, and most won’t notice even when they are.