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“Our society’s brightest minds, my fellow engineers and product managers, are being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars not to solve the existential problems of climate change, space travel, cancer, and aging but to instead find new ways to keep an already mentally ill society consuming endless content, always fighting for more of their... See more
Rethinking Social: A New Product
Actually, fuck answers, the more I think about it. The best questions don’t have answers. The point of the question isn’t to find an answer. The best questions are organizing principles, magnets, ways of seeing.
Practically the entire economy has reoriented itself to allow Americans to stay within their four walls. This phenomenon cannot be reduced to remote work. It is something far more totalizing—something more like “remote life.”
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We think of it as three pillars: AI, human, and brand. AI brings power and speed, the human brings taste, intuition, and problem-solving, and the brand provides the framework that keeps everything on-point and relevant. Without that balance, you either get work that’s technically impressive but soulless, or work that’s imaginative but not aligned... See more
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The Retreating Human: God of the Gaps Logic in AI Resistance
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“The problem with this move is not that it is wrong to notice gaps. Gaps are real and important. The problem is that it becomes a kind of motte-and-bailey: it defines “human” precisely as “whatever machines cannot do (yet).” That definition is, by construction, unfalsifiable. It is also unhelpful for guiding real-world decisions about governance, labor, or ethics.”
