The thing I didn’t understand going into it was that Substack wasn’t just about an economic trend of power flowing to individual writers thanks to the leverage technology gives them—it was about creating a morally superior playing field that could help heal our minds from the damage done by social networks. The Substack model wasn’t just a business... See more

The leading labs have all said building AGI is their explicit goal, which focuses on some vague technical dream of replicating human intelligence but says very little about the broader implications for humanity.

Now, this is good news for the people in this room.

The biggest challenges we face aren’t technical.

They are psychological,... See more

Subcultures allow for an escape from status as a zero-sum game. If you’re the king of your own world, you don’t feel bad for being at the bottom of someone else’s social ladder (1, 2). Bloggers know they aren’t universally popular, but it doesn’t matter as long as you have your corner of the internet.

In contrast, Substack totally violates Social... See more