Tech and Society

“As a medium, the internet is defined by a built-in performance incentive. In real life, you can walk around living life and be visible to other people. But you can’t just walk around and be visible on the internet—for anyone to see you, you have to act.”

There’s something crucial here: if we don’t break the underlying infrastructure - the

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The freedom of information the internet brings helps us expose idiot intellectuals quickly and more accurately than ever before. But the internet also allows idiot intellectuals to convert people into idiot followers more quickly and easily than ever before.

The result... is life in 2026.

There are times when it’s incredibly active and pleasurable and generative to go down these clickbaity rabbit holes online and just be amazed at what you can find. It can spark all sorts of thoughts and challenge things that you felt and give you new information... It’s a magical thing to have, absolutely, and I do that myself... I just get to call... See more

When you use AI to scale output, you're not just saving time. You're slowly averaging yourself out. You're moving toward the mean. And the mean is worthless in brand work. The mean is what everyone else already sounds like. The atmosphere is filling up with this undifferentiated, machine-assisted content and it's changing the conditions for... See more

The problem is that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness . Work costs nothing to an LLM. LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone’s) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto a layercake of garbage. Left unchecked, LLMs will make systems larger, not better — appealing to perverse vanity metrics, perhaps, but... See more

It’s shifting toward the people who can see clearly, choose well, and adapt faster than the ground is moving beneath them.