Latvia’s Flow won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature and was created because he was somehow obsessed Blender, the free/open-source 3D modeling tool. It’s now consensus that it’s just a matter of time that an AI-made film could be a worthy contender in mainstream awards. Creative production pipelines are increasingly “node graph native.” ComfyUI’s... See more

Scott Alexander’s recent post argues that the best response to AI displacement isn’t optimization or doomerism—it’s play. Figure out what you actually want. Do the thing you love doing.

This is harder than it sounds. We’ve been socialized to optimize for homogeneity, not edge. But just as retail orderflow now moves institutional markets, the... See more