Humanity in the Age of AI

One study found that more than half of the text on the web had been modified by A.I.

Did it make sense to treat unclaimed time as a problem? We’ve solved it algorithmically, and now have none.

But the reasons are intuitive in media. Power law-like distributions occur because content choices are not independent.

Prior to the internet, media was one-way. It traversed down a linear value chain: it was produced, then distributed, and then consumed. Consumers had limited feedback mechanisms, other than voting with their eyeballs or wallets or ... See more

Framed through the lens of TTI, audiences don’t suffer from a dilemma of shortened attention spans, but rather a dilemma of increased choice (see the abundance crisis above).

Abundance of content created fierce competition. Competition bred audience impatience. Impatience rewarded whoever could hook viewers fastest. And hooking audiences consistently for extended periods requires exceptional storytelling talent - which is rare.

The result? Short-form content dominates because most creators can only hold attention for bri... See more

As we build systems whose capabilities more and more resemble those of humans, despite the fact that those systems work in ways that are fundamentally different from the way humans work, it becomes increasingly tempting to anthropomorphise them. Humans have evolved to co-exist over many millions of years, and human culture has evolved over thousand

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If you want to understand a society, don’t listen to what they say about themselves. Look at what they make. So, who are we then? Obsessed with scale, productivity, and the bottom line with little regard for the soul of what’s being made or the souls that’ll be shaped by it. Don’t get me wr... See more