Matt Little

"Philosophical counseling is to reason what psychotherapy is to emotions."

The real revolution might be “AI for the masses at scale.” It’s increasingly clear that it seems to be worth building with the assumption that access to intelligence will continue to rapidly decline in cost, similar to that of computer memory and storage over the past 50 years. Each time the price of intelligence drops, it opens up a new opportunit... See more

You might say, “But, John, let’s get real: there was no real revolution, this reaction is all just an overreaction.” Yes, but I think Marx is right when he says the bourgeoisie “judges more correctly than so-called socialism knows how to judge itself…” Technology was and is creating a huge social upheaval that potentially threatens them and they sa... See more

Revolution. What I now understand it to be historically is a rebirth of the New Left. So it’s very analogous. I’ve spent a lot of time talking to David Horowitz about this because he lived through it 40 years earlier.

It turned out to be a coalition of economic radicals, and this was the rise of Bernie Sanders, but the kids turned on capitalism in a... See more

So here’s the formula, if you can call it that:

1. Find a real problem (not a hypothetical one)


2. Make the solution emotionally resonant (not just functional)


3. Time it right (not too early, not too late)


4. Communicate the why (not just the what)


5. Focus on existing needs (not invented ones)


6. Win decisively on what matters most (not marginally on everything)


7. Remove o

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