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You should expect that (if you're lucky!) your spouse—and maybe one good friend—will read and understand your work, but that as a general rule: the people who are closest to you will care and understand the least. Their very familiarity breeds a kind of incomprehension of anything that goes beyond the person they thought they knew.
Luke Burgistwitter.comgood reminder. no reason to expect your fam/friends to understand your work.
This isn’t really anything novel. But in our hyper-digital age, how information is framed often matters more than the substance of that information itself.
Studio Ghibli AI, Classified Leaks, and the Context Shift
Of course the thing about beginning again — about starting over midway through is that you have to be willing to watch yourself die.
I learned that from writing this newsletter.
Next week, it will be three years since I launched the cereal aisle, and I think the most important thing I have learned in the time since is that rebirth is on the other... See more
I learned that from writing this newsletter.
Next week, it will be three years since I launched the cereal aisle, and I think the most important thing I have learned in the time since is that rebirth is on the other... See more
Leandra Medine Cohen • Three years of cereal
Leandra Medine reflecting on three years of her newsletter - touches on fame, rebirth, meaning…
The False Promise of Understanding Yourself
open.substack.com
via Max Nussenbaum
Today, America needs balls. And so balls are what we must reward.
-SOLANA
-SOLANA
Age of Balls
How to avoid cynicism:
Act in ways opposite to your instinct. If you hate something, find out more about it. Again ask 'What is this?', 'Who made this?', 'Who is this for?' Genuinely. Never stop doing this"
-via @being_on_line
Ignoring AI’s potential is, well, ignorant
Nate Silver • It's time to come to grips with AI
tweets like “consistently amazed by how useless chatgpt is” don’t help the cause.
these tweets are the “equivalent to, in the 1990s, dismissing the Internet as a “pornography and hacking machine. Yes, these are common use cases, but they’re the tip of a massive iceberg.”
Human advantage will be caring about other humans: “humans care about other humans and also not at all about machines”
His most striking prediction: “Who in this room would say with conviction, I’m sure I’ll be smarter than GPT5? Not a single person.
His most striking prediction: “Who in this room would say with conviction, I’m sure I’ll be smarter than GPT5? Not a single person.
Sam Altman bfast with JB.
(note: i want to write about intelligence)