Ideas I want to write about

Humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether our social, political, and technological systems possess the maturity to wield it.

"GPT-5.3-Codex is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself. The Codex team used early versions to debug its own training, manage its own deployment, and diagnose test results and evaluations."

The AI labs made a deliberate choice. They focused on making AI great at writing code first... because building AI requires a lot of code. If AI can write that code, it can help build the next version of itself. A smarter version, which writes better code, which builds an even smarter version. Making AI great at coding was the strategy that unlocks... See more

Mass culture itself has become a subculture — a sort of sideshow to the real action,

Since 2014 I have lived in New York, inside the machine where Lifestyle is made

When the institutional machine needs to deploy billions of dollars, it indexes toward ideas that Make Total Sense in the few themes in the tech zeitgeist at any given moment. And thus the ecosystem orients itself to produce a steady stream of companies that are legible and reasonable enough in a Monday partner meeting

We are in an economy of narratives not an economy of products , in an economy of symbols not an economy of things .