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The biggest bottleneck in building superintelligence is that AI agents are not as of yet very good at evaluating how they’re doing at a given goal. If they could better self-assess, they could self-improve. And digital self-improvement loops could lead to superintelligence. Making progress on importing particular human taste/judgement into LLMs

When all artists are confined to the same handful of platforms to promote their work, only the top 1% get a fair slice of them. And when all listeners are dispersed over an infinite array of small-scale, pop-up, artist-first solutions, no one gets a pleasant digital music experience. The only solution is stratification at scale.

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aggregation is convenient for consumers, bad for the long tail of creators.
first time I hear the term “stratification at scale” - seems to suggest we can avoid flattening by building platforms that cater to different segments and preferences. (ie Sublime can be the platform for creative thinkers)

No souls were sold in the making.

Arielle Richards • Please Stop Making Social Networks

the new certified organic label for websites?

Undivided focus and your precious human time are among the most scarce and meaningful gifts you can give others in the AI era. Especially asalgorithms becoming more sophisticated in competing for our attention, giving your time to a human will be a gift. I expect our culture to crave the exchange of undivided attention. Showing your hands during a... See more

The Great Unlock of Your Time & How the Sway of Brand is Changing

When Abraham Maslow did clinical studies of people who self-actualized, one thing that set them apart from others was, he wrote, that they lived “more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs, and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.” They were, to put it simply, more... See more

Henrik Karlsson • Becoming Perceptive

I hope the sense of struggling, rather than knowing, is palpable here.

Rayne Fisher-Quann • the ends of empathy

love the honesty here - it’s not write what you know, it’s write to understand what you don’t know

“It’s getting ever harder to distinguish humans from bots, not just because bots are becoming more humanlike, but also because humans are becoming more botlike.”

Gurwinder • For Paid Subscribers (December 2023)

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Knowing What Motivates You

Have you ever heard the expression “That really pushes my buttons”? The notion that there is a particular set of things that uniquely motivates a person has always been a very powerful one with me. I don’t always have the best handle on what I want in life, but I have enough introspection to know where my buttons are. A... See more