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Spotify accounts of celebrities, politicians, and journalists. The Panama Papers revealed hidden bank accounts. This reveals hidden tastes.

Three ways of thinking about the Kirk assassination

“Zuckerberg posted a helpful chart to show what happens when provocateurs post content that very nearly breaks a rule: engagement skyrockets.”

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

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

I recently used ChatGPT to create a list of possible ideas for a brand positioning. It created a bland and expected set of answers. This made it easy to eliminate anything obvious, so we could then get to work coming up with new, more surprising ideas. Genuinely very helpful.

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reverse strategy for using ChatGPT

This may be a different kind of attention economy, less about mass reach, more about small, meaningful engagement. It may be a sign of something more intimate, and perhaps even more human.

How language is hiding the real internet from you

I read through every single job posting on OpenAI's career page. Here's everything they're working on and who they compete with. | Deedy Das | 48 comments

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Choose-your-own-reality governance is a threat to the most basic principles of liberal democracy. If economic statistics can be distorted, and climate data can be canceled, and vaccine analysis can be politicized, where exactly is the line? Transparency, trust, and public truths are essential to the functioning of liberal democracy. We’re all... See more

Trump, the BLS, and Our Age of Choose-Your-Own-Reality Governance

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.