Severin Matusek

Creative work by inspiration is seen as unpaid and without value. Creative work for commercial purposes is worth compensation if it meets the brief. Institutions remain the primary mediators of payment, whether they're museums, corporations, or technology platforms.

The traditional boundaries of profession and practice blur not because they're being forcibly eroded, but because they're becoming irrelevant to how value is actually created.

With the platform era now coming to a close (partially due to AI slop’s overreach) and AI supposedly driving cognitive costs to zero, counterintuitively, our institutional structures will enter a growth phase in response to a new demand for shared narratives.

If Silicon Valley’s Web 2.0 era was defined by founders playing God on their computers by creating social networks and other services, the new era is about founders angling to create ‘superintelligent’ computers that may one day surpass humans and become a kind of ‘God’ in the machine.

It’s not just the party that is over. The culture war is over. So...the right won? No, but the liberals’ media empire is over.

Right now, it’s really easy for us to just constantly say AI will make you better. AI will give you superpowers. AI will do the grunt work in your day-to-day job to free you up for higher-order thinking. We’ve become evangelical about it. In our rush to augment everybody, we’re pushing out Copilot licenses like they’re going out of fashion. We’re... See more

A social currency is a tokenized asset that represents value within a specific community, often used to incentivize engagement, reward participation, and strengthen brand or community loyalty. It operates similarly to traditional currency but derives its worth from social interactions, reputation, and influence.

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technology and globalization have changed our information streams and our patterns of life drastically enough that the ways we calibrate around incoming information are becoming increasingly dangerous for us,