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LinkedIn AI-suggested comments. Ketchup’d. The “Rewrite with AI” button. Ketchup’d, Corporate Memphis art style. Ketchup’d. Spotify “Chill Hits” playlists. K’d. Sweetgreen. K’d. ChatGPT’s polite neutrality.K’d. Airbnb “greige” interiors. K’d. Vape flavors named “Miami Mint.” K’d. HR therapy-speak (“let’s unpack that,” “I’m holding space”). K’d. The... See more

thinkism, which is this idea that we can solve things by thinking about them or that we can even understand things by thinking about them, that what the world needs is more intelligence. We’re not going to solve or even identify the right problems by thinking about them. We only figure it out through use.

As economists, we argue that the philosophical assumptions that guide welfare economics have also guided the design of digital spaces: specifically by defining individual well-being by the theory of revealed preferences. The fundamental idea that a person maximizes their welfare by making choices that reflect their underlying preferences remains... See more

In my mind, it forms the beginnings of a worldview that is almost the exact opposite of the one taking hold in Silicon Valley. That humans are miraculous, and that far from spelling the end of human supremacy, climbing to AI’s local maximum will signal the endpoint of the left-brain materialist era by demonstrating that there’s magic beyond the... See more