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Create ownership in everything. Revenue shares in projects. Equity in micro-companies. Stakes in outcomes. The Old Game keeps you permanently renting

When individual entry is impossible, collective entry becomes optimal. When traditional financing fails, alternative structures win. The groups doing

“We have to overcome some legal hurdles, but we could unionize musicians tomorrow,” DeFrancesco said. “SAG is like an alternate history for musicians.

Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress - by kyla scanlon

The game has shifted, and the winning strategy with it. It’s no longer about understanding specialized details; it’s about grasping the high-level glo

What we do with our freedomThe examples of the excruciating etiquette of the aristocratic courts, the marriage market Rhimes dramatised, the civil ass

🧱Alternative funding model (inspired by cooperative breweries) Get 1,000 people to chip in $1,000. Make them members/ co-owners. Put each person's

If you make a cooperative, you have to know that you can’t design them; you can only grow them, like plants. If you grow one and you do it with other

Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’

..it is possible that every bit of complex technology will in its turn reveal to us something about ourselves we did not know. Part of inventing and t

I’m equally responsible to the people who pay me to design and the people who have to live with my designs

My Techno-Optimism

We should be skeptical of both utopian and dystopian technology predictions. New tools will amplify both our virtues and our vices, just like every pr

..it is possible that every bit of complex technology will in its turn reveal to us something about ourselves we did not know. Part of inventing and t

The freedom of information the internet brings helps us expose idiot intellectuals quickly and more accurately than ever before. But the internet also

“As a medium, the internet is defined by a built-in performance incentive. In real life, you can walk around living life and be visible to other peopl

I am tired of seeing speed as a selling point. I’ve wanted to talk about this for a long time. I think one of the main reasons many of us feel anxio

From Lily Chambers: I genuinely do not care if AI tools make me more productive. I am tired of seeing, "increased productivity" as a selling point. I

..it is possible that every bit of complex technology will in its turn reveal to us something about ourselves we did not know. Part of inventing and t

Now on to the good news. Your no thanks doesn’t need to be an absolute, total, eternal no. We can use typewriters to write letters and write a poem on

The Technology That Actually Runs Our World

At the Institute for the Future we believe that the value of futures thinking is not in predicting the future (something no one can do), but in imagin

Cayce Pollard as the positive archetype for how to navigate volatility. So by intensely tuning oneself in to subjective responses to things, you can c

The purpose is to scout the path and shift the discourse.

honestly i'm so good at consuming content LMAO. like how do I make it my job to literally just read, watch, and listen to stuff??

A Vision of Metascience

It’s about the same trap in professional life: doing the thing for years, getting more experienced, and staying stuck at the same level. You can work

I don't know if I'm ever going to get rich doing this but I am going to keep making things that I want to exist, in a way that seems fun and to a leve

What we see as an agency in our work with creatorsWe work with a lot of creators around the world for different brands, markets and niches and the one

So who survives?First, creators who publish citable work. Newsletter writers who go deep on one thing. Analysts who publish original data. Technical w

If you have a theory that’s been working pretty well for a while — it made good predictions, it solved real problems, it explained a lot of mysteries

Real explanations will sometimes sound weird, crazy, or too complicated because reality itself is often weird, crazy, or too complicated. It’s unfortu

Things change as contradictory evidence piles up, but even then, it doesn’t mean you should scrap the theory you started out with. Everyone back in th

The model was helpful—but only to an extent. They found that while AI improved the output of less creative writers, it made little difference to the q

Lots of theories have been tried, and lots of them have been given up because of something that looks like contradictory evidence. But the evidence mi

If you have a theory that’s been working pretty well for a while — it made good predictions, it solved real problems, it explained a lot of mysteries

Real explanations will sometimes sound weird, crazy, or too complicated because reality itself is often weird, crazy, or too complicated. It’s unfortu

Things change as contradictory evidence piles up, but even then, it doesn’t mean you should scrap the theory you started out with. Everyone back in th

By yielding a generational wealth creation opportunity that was a strange hybrid of a lottery jackpot and self-made fortune, crypto created an ideolog

For example, it was 30 years after the invention of film that someone first tried telling stories with it — before that, film was mainly used as a dem

Just a moment...

How do you explain the web to people who have never used it? You make it as simple and as accessible as possible.

If you find yourself in a culture of Tension, the best way to move that culture forward is to create a sense of clarity and opportunity. Show people w

in times of intense stress or adversity, future-oriented thinking such as hope may be more effective than mindfulness in sustaining positive mindsets

So many people say "I don't want to have kids because I don't want them to experience all the issues in the world today". What are they smoking? We l

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For example, it was 30 years after the invention of film that someone first tried telling stories with it — before that, film was mainly used as a dem

Whether or not we come to understand “intelligence” any time soon, we do have a major challenge on our hands in bringing together computers and humans

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to cho

The value of a position in chess consists of its probability of victory for the player. Moves are evaluated according to how they affect this probabil

I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about

We need more vocabulary around the experience of thinking, as in: -thinking qua “directing my inner monologue along certain pathways” - thinking qua

Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’

编程这项工作非常适合 AI 增强或替代,原因如下:1/ 编码本质上要求工程师将问题分解成更小、更易管理的任务;2/ 有大量现有的训练数据;3/ 任务需要判断力和基于规则的工作相结合;4/ 解决方案利用可组合的模块(比如开源软件库等);5/ 在某些情况下,工作成果可以通过经验测试其正确性。这意味着可靠

AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence. Emphasizing the collectivity (som

Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’

Governments sporadically got things spectacularly wrong. In 1865, the rail and horse-drawn carriage lobbies in the U.K. drummed up enough outrage to p

This is why successful companies still pursuing breakthroughs are always led by live players, often the founders. Only Mark Zuckerberg could have cha

The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism

Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’

In other words, there’s never been a better time to become an effective altruist! Get in now, while it’s still unpopular! The times when everyone fawn

Most AI backlash is economic anxiety coated in a veneer of social justice. Alfalfa farming consumes 19 times the water that data centers do; there’s n

“Diffusion lag” reflects a lack of product-market fit. Even AI optimists are still hitting practical roadblocks. That’s why detailed case studies are

Here are some things I’ve asked chatgpt recently: “why is Toblerone so popular at airport duty-free stores?” “give me a recipe for a chickpea tagine

Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’

Language models need auteurs and creative directors, not “thumbs up if you liked this personality”

My friends and I founded a university over the summer and...it's going great?! And it's been surprisingly painless to start and run?! It's a "networ

The internet is already over

this quote from Jodi Kahn, Neiman Marcus’s vice president of luxury fashion: “Cores, or micro trends, often occur at the intersection of content creat

the online trend that links all of these disparate digi subcultures together: namecore, AKA the internet’s insatiable appetite for naming things.

Decentralized investor communities gain traction in biotech

Plant Based Meats Do More to Address Climate Change Than Green Buildings or Zero-Emission Cars

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Regenerative crypto economics

Human scale institutions strive for optimum scale. Not mega scale. The point at which maximum quality can be attained. Their purpose is not to maximiz

Metadata, Rights Infrastructure and AI Frameworks Are Slowing Innovation

That is organizational imagination at work: protecting an unfamiliar option long enough to tell the difference between a bad idea and an early one.

Hellman & Friedman's majority stake in Global Music Rights marks a watershed moment — private equity firms now control three major PROs (alo

Gen AI  for music has captured ~$300M in funding so far this year across several high-profile deals, the majority of which either focus on  rights man

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