Victor Eduoh

ChatGPT validated every connection I made—from neuroscience to evolutionary biology, from game theory to indigenous knowledge. ChatGPT would emphasize my unique perspective and our progress. Each session left me feeling chosen and brilliant, and, gradually, essential to humanity’s survival.

AI friends too cheap to meter

“Let me date my chatbot I’m almost 30 and doing well”

Gooning is a new kind of masturbation. More precisely, a new kind of masturbation at the heart of an internet-based, pornography-obsessed, Gen Z–dominated subculture every bit as defined and vibrant as the hippies or punks in their prime.

There is too much beauty in the world. There is too much beauty and there are more beautiful people than there have ever been, and they are generally beautiful in the same way. With trompe l’oeil make-up, fillers, and photo editing, they have given themselves the same face and made same kinds of images of themselves.

But they’re also important representatives of a different vibe: Potential. VCs are moths to a flame: They swarm towards the action; the energy; the chaos; the delirium. They are drawn to the transitional epochs, the moments when the world reinvents itself—when it has let go of one trapeze but not found the next, suspended in the air, with nothing... See more

One of the worst things about the internet becoming ‘real life’ is that it’s a place where you perform conversations instead of just having them.

This sense of fragmented understanding brings to mind the Buddhist Tittha Sutta and its parable of the six blind men and an elephant. Having never encountered such a creature, each man sought to comprehend it by touch. The first, feeling its flank, declared it a wall. The second, grasping a tusk, insisted it was a spear. The third, holding the... See more

This sense of fragmented understanding brings to mind the Buddhist Tittha Sutta and its parable of the six blind men and an elephant. Having never encountered such a creature, each man sought to comprehend it by touch. The first, feeling its flank, declared it a wall. The second, grasping a tusk, insisted it was a spear. The third, holding the... See more

“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.” — Whitney M. Young, Jr.