AI

when you no longer have to work to live, will you still want to live?
when intelligence is free, will you still trust your own?
when energy is limitless, will anything feel earned?
the zero cost world is not some glowing technoheaven. it’s ego death at civilizational scale. it’s the disintegration of “i matter because i do.” and most are wildly unprep... See more
when intelligence is free, will you still trust your own?
when energy is limitless, will anything feel earned?
the zero cost world is not some glowing technoheaven. it’s ego death at civilizational scale. it’s the disintegration of “i matter because i do.” and most are wildly unprep... See more
signull • the zero cost world is coming & it’s going to break your brain
Lately my feeds have been clogged with doomer takes about how AI is sloppify-ing the culture and destroying livelihoods and making it impossible to think critically. But personally, I keep having cool experiences with AI that leave me feeling more curious, more creative, more compassionate with myself and others. That possibility of AI making us mo... See more
once the AI has written something, it cannot go back, so it needs to justify (or explain or lie about) that statement in the future
Ethan Mollick • Thinking Like an AI
we’ve been trained since childhood to value the answer. school taught us that. the world graded us on it.
but real thinkers, dangerous thinkers, chase questions.
not to look smart. not to win arguments.
but to see differently.
to peel back the world & ask: why does this even look like this?
to ask things like:
but real thinkers, dangerous thinkers, chase questions.
not to look smart. not to win arguments.
but to see differently.
to peel back the world & ask: why does this even look like this?
to ask things like:
- what assumptions are hiding in plain sig
answers are now insanely cheap
AI is not pulling from a database, it is guessing the next word based on statistical patterns in its training data. That means that what it produces is not necessarily true (in fact, one of many surprises about LLMs are how often they are right, given this), but, even when it provides false information, it likely sounds plausible. That makes it har... See more
Ethan Mollick • Thinking Like an AI
you will realize that AI accomplishes impressive outcomes that, intuitively, we would not expect from an autocomplete system.
Ethan Mollick • Thinking Like an AI


If I had to grow a SaaS to $100k/month from ZERO today with AI, this is exactly how I’d do it:
I’d start by picking a niche I deeply understand. Maybe it’s ghostwriters, short-form video editors, newsletter operators. People who have recurring, painful, time-consuming tasks that https://t.co/C8x9KTp865