Cameron Jones

While most of the coverage of Musk's wrecking crew has focused on the broccoli-haired Gen Z brownshirts who are wilding through the server rooms at giant, critical government agencies, Tkacik homes in on their boss, Tom Krause, whom she memorably dubs "the Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets" (I told you... See more

Anyway, whether it’s trans activists or Israelis engaging in long-term self-harm, people using slogans to answer difficult questions are not doing themselves or anyone else any favours.

For decades, the neurotic hamster in us approached knowledge management by compulsively tagging. We’d find something interesting and slap as many tags on it as we could to increase our chances of finding it again: #machine #robots #tech #ai #productivity #mindfulness.

This made sense in a pre-AI world, where tagging was the only way to ensure retrie... See more

Anyway, I sent him Bill Clinton above. Yes, Bill’s being self-serving. He did rather a lot of that. Still does. But what he says is also devastatingly right. The media sits at the centre of discussion — between protagonists of different positions.

I wrote a whole article on this and how fundamental it is for those institutions that convene spaces f... See more

The AI bubble is the new crypto bubble: you can tell because the same people are behind it, and they're doing the same thing with AI as they did with crypto – trying desperately to find a use case to cram it into, despite the yawning indifference and outright hostility of the users

When your ideas, interests, and even daily meals are largely inspired by whatever was already approved, already done, already voted on and liked, you’re only experiencing life as an echo of the masses (or the machines, if personalized based on historic preference). And in this echo chamber, genuine discovery is rare, even radical.