internet culture

So I’ll end with a very weird question: What does slow AI look like? We’ve automatically assumed that the way we interact with it is instantaneous. Are we sure that’s right? Would it be interesting to be able to say to an AI, Look, over the next three or four months, can you give me some ideas about holidays in Greece? Do we want to make that... See more

Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?

cheaper to run this way?

For all the hype that surrounds them, neural networks can’t reflect or explain anything deeper about cultural or societal phenomena any more than sharing a favorite character from The Office can predict long-term compatibility with a Tinder match. These systems can only instrumentalize taste; they turn any expression of self into a reductive data... See more

Alex Vuocolo • Nameless Feeling — Real Life

For instance, sometimes we create abstraction layers that allow people to create things on top of them explicitly without having to understand anything beneath them. We call those “platforms.” The expectation is that when we create abstraction layers like that, we should see an explosion of creativity, since now people can focus only on the... See more

Moxie Marlinspike • The Magic of Software; Or, What Makes a Good Engineer Also Makes a Good Engineering Organization

elle • Tweet

Lulu Cheng Meservey had a good take on X: the Zuck glow-up is now so overdone that it seems artificial, manufactured, inauthentic. Going on Joe Rogan last week may have been the final straw.

We can already see a backlash brewing on TikTok, accelerating by Meta rolling back moderation and by the TikTok ban being viewed as Zuckerberg puppeteering.... See more

25 Predictions for 2025 (Part II)

NON NEGOTIABLES

Of the place
Less is more
Vibrant collaboration
No repeat ingredients
Consolidation + speed
Confidence + competence
In + out service
Pursuit of excellence
Details matter
Know your shit!
FOCUS
Service
Time
Not about you
Perfect means perfect
No excuses
Respect tradition
Push boundaries
Clean as you go
Break down boxes
Shirts perfectly pressed
Personal

There’s a joke around “the best minds of my generation were tasked with getting people to click on ads”. At least you can attribute those ads to powering free global communications, information networks, and technical research.

I’d argue that the most creative minds of my generation were told to believe that creating yet another self-satisfying... See more

Reggie James • Political Expectations