The Future

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. Capitalis... 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.

The ease of setting up technology and technological platforms is a major component of why so much basic research is moving out of academia. Practically anyone with a garage these days can do profound studies, relative to just 15 to 20 years ago.