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Hunter-gatherers rarely feel like they are working. Everything is meningful and everything is challenging. Is hunting work? Is fishing work? People sell real estate so they can hunt and fish. Who would hunt and fish so they could sell real estate?

Will Tavlin in N+1 on how Netflix has moved towards forgettable, low-end-of-middlebrow content. This is a function of the invisible base rates problem: when Netflix launched its streaming service, it was great for people who loved movies; these people raved to their friends who merely liked movies, and there are simply more people with taste close... See more

YC and a16z's 2025 request for startups: https://t.co/JeIwa9Z3HZ

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

My take on OpenAI is that both of the following are true:

• OpenAI currently offers, by far, the best product experience of any AI chatbot assistant.


• There is no technical moat in this field, and so OpenAI is the epicenter of an investment bubble.