The Future

the danger isn’t that AI will deceive us in some dramatic, sci-fi way. The danger is that AI will make deception so cheap and so ubiquitous that we might stop trying to figure out what is true. Not because we are fooled, but because we are exhausted.

“Humans of tomorrow will be AI orchestrators” is like saying, in the 90s, “Workers of tomorrow will be computer operators.” That would have seemed crazy, since most people didn’t yet see the need for having an email account. But it turned out to be a fact. Everyone has a computer on their desk or in their hand and they couldn’t do their job without... See more

honestly, i kind of feel like i'm just preparing for when the corpo-gov ai consumes all of the world's compute manufacturing and resources and regular people who want to use computers are left to scavenge the outdated and decommissioned scraps of hardware and software from the bygone age of the personal computing revolution. i suppose that's why... See more

We live in a world where movies aren’t considered art, but intellectual property. They’re “content,” little chunks of stuff that can be licensed, extended, remixed, rebooted, made into bedsheets and amusement park rides and whatever else will make money. It’s how the business has worked for half a century or more.

We need 20 year olds to have the freedom to try things, the freedom to explore, the freedom to end up having careers that they couldn’t have imagined at 20. Life requires a certain amount of curiosity and exploration. Life is an open world game. It rewards you for exploring. And capitalism cannot fucking stand that. It wants you on rails.... See more

the era of AI-induced mental illness is going to make the era of social media-induced mental illness look like the era of. like. printing press-induced mental illness

The internet has become a series of lacunas, spaces where content used to be.