The Future

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

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.

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.

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

But what if the coming revolution is a silent one that will be led by those who, in the face of this increasing activity and ear-splitting noise, choose the anti-mimetic path? Who grow quieter and more intentional?

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the world's compute manufacturing and resources and regular people who want to use computers are left to scavenge the outdated and decommissioned scraps of hardware and software from the bygone age of the personal computing revolution.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