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what we lose when everything gets summarized.

When I started writing a newsletter in 2019, I remember thinking there were too many newsletters. That was before Substack had made a meaningful dent on the Internet and only a handful of writers were seriously using it. The coolest things do not yet exist. You are not late.

i wish i wrote this

a really well done ELI5 explainer on AI training models. read this closely and you’ll learn a lot about how the incentives of the commercial web impact the quality of the training data.

Taste is not merely superficial preferences but a fundamental human experience linked to moral judgment and self-discovery.

The internet lacks the patience for difficulty and comprehension, resulting in a poor version of culture compared to what existed before.

Many people desire alternatives to the current internet and are frustrated with the lack of human curation.