MargaretC

“My LASIK is wearing off.” When LASIK is the one thing that patients know about ophthalmology, it’s no wonder they come to the incorrect conclusion that LASIK must be the answer to their problems again. They often then have a reasonable followup question: “How many times am I going to need this?”

The answer? Most of the time, they don’t. The average... See more

It seems to me that Don believed deep down that our worlds were worth decorating, and that doing so was a joyful act. “The people who use lawn ornaments are typically friendly because they’re decorating the outside of their house for someone else,” he once told an interviewer.

To the extent that people do use AI tools for real work, it is often through something like an application copilot. These are all built to offer a “safe” way to use AI at work, and as such are often very limited compared to what a frontier model can do.

That space—where you look up from writing and don’t know where to go or what to do next, where you sit at a red light, wait at the post office? Something lives in that space that’s being hurt and displaced by calling in the “elsewhere” of messages, news cycles, TikToks, and so on. A relationship to something as yet unknown and under formation is... See more