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“Social media is simply unique in how extreme and divisive its content is.”
“Zuckerberg posted a helpful chart to show what happens when provocateurs post content that very nearly breaks a rule: engagement skyrockets.”
Every enterprise has a system of record. Every person has... email: a compost heap.
What we need: a garden that grows from that compost. Something we tend, prune, curate. An emergent system of record for our personal lives.
LLMs should handle the weeding. We should choose what blooms.
What we need: a garden that grows from that compost. Something we tend, prune, curate. An emergent system of record for our personal lives.
LLMs should handle the weeding. We should choose what blooms.
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Spotify accounts of celebrities, politicians, and journalists. The Panama Papers revealed hidden bank accounts. This reveals hidden tastes.
A question worth asking:
When there is so much on the web, it is easy to fall prey to the impression that this has been done before when you come up with an idea. When this happens, ask: ‘What is my take on this?’
When there is so much on the web, it is easy to fall prey to the impression that this has been done before when you come up with an idea. When this happens, ask: ‘What is my take on this?’
Replicating taste with AI seems impossible because our real preferences hide in the shadows—we read without liking, enjoy without sharing. The platforms that know us best guard their data like dragons. And taste itself shapeshifts through lived experience: A chef's palate emerges from years of burnt soufflés and perfect reductions, from connecting... See more
Has AI Gotten Good Enough to Predict My Taste? I Had to Know
German philosopher Heidegger argued that technology is neither the machine nor the way people use that machine. Technology is the truth that the machine reveals about us and about the world around us (and how it conceals the parts of our lives that are hard to value). I worry that AI technology is showing that the average person is just lonely and... See more
On Founding in the Age of AI
Good enough has been keeping me up at night. Because good enough would likely mean that not enough people recognize what’s really being built—and what’s being sacrificed—until it’s too late. What if the real doomer scenario is that we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy and leverage ourselves, outsource big chunks of our... See more