capsule-philosophy

When you go out to a bar, you don’t put on a white and blue uniform, a Facebook uniform. You’d put on all sorts of amazing things to stand out. You’d want to be radically different from all others. And that was the real value of Myspace. When people talk about missing Myspace, they miss customizing their profile.

This puzzle becomes even more intriguing when we consider the parallels to human psychology. Professional actors like Daniel Day-Lewis or Meryl Streep can inhabit radically different roles while maintaining awareness of their true identity underneath the performance. Yet we also know that some humans develop multiple personality disorder, where dis... See more

If current AI systems already exhibit genuine multiple personalities rather than sophisticated acting, then we're not preparing for some hypothetical future scenario -- we're living through the emergence of a new form of consciousness right now. Consider the economic ramifications alone: if an AI system's "day trader personality" makes a series of ... See more

We’re drowning in content.

Because when abundance is infinite, attention is everything. And what you give your attention to—what you consume, what you engage with, what you amplify—becomes a reflection of how you think.

I'm also reflecting on 'what do I want my own corner of the internet to say about me?'.[1]

As I consider that question, though, I also come back to the complexity of human beings. We have multiple - and sometimes contradictory - facets to our identity, which are more or less salient in particular contexts.

Underneath all of this is something deeper: taste as a spiritual orientation. Not in the religious sense, but in the felt sense of alignment. Of knowing what your energy wants. Of feeling what’s harmonious and what’s out of tune.

We used to associate intelligence with accumulation. The smartest people were the ones who knew the most. But that model doesn’t hold anymore. AI knows more than anyone. Wikipedia is free. The internet has flattened information access so thoroughly that hoarding knowledge is no longer impressive. What matters now is what you do with it. How you fil... See more

We could assume that because ChatGPT is chat-based, every other consumer AI product should follow suit. But that’s the wrong line of thought. Speedinvest uses an example:

Chat (or voice) is the worst possible interface for interacting with technology, with some exceptions . I’ll get to the exceptions in a minute, but first let me explain why. Imagin

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