Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
co-matter.comSeverin Matusek
Creator platforms algorithmically incentivize us to create at the pace Wall Street and the market demand. This is why we’re pushed to create more and more. Not because our audiences are asking for it. Not because the world needs more of what we have to say. Because we as artists, the platforms, and their investors desire, to varying degrees,... See more
The artist and the inner retreat
Dune Part Two and the Return of Socialist Realism We are living through an era of thudding cultural literalism.In our narrative products (movies, TV and to a lesser but noticeable extent, novels) that has meant that instead of story we get plot, premise and lore, dialogue is replaced by
all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io
Web 3.0 and Publishing
People pay to see others believe in themselves.
“I’M REALLY SCARED WHEN I KILL IN MY DREAMS” (FROM A LYRIC BY GLENN BRANCA)
If LLMs can now ace the IMO, why not make them president and CEO too? They should run the institutions, not us. Relatedly: the idea that Mars colonization or Cluely or whatever is some kind of natural, inevitable endpoint to humanity; that regardless of whether a product is something we want, there is a moral duty to bring it into existence—to... See more
By And For Technologists
The internet created the false impression that all socializing is authentic and improvisational. We’re discovering social lives are planned once again.
2025 predictions
> be me
> Alexandr Wang, born January 1997
> age 19, drop out of MIT
> co-found Scale AI
> "what if we label data, but mid?"
> convince every LLM company that this is fine
> 2016–2023
> flood the market with barely-labeled goat photos... See more
In the face of a monolith-in-the-veldt-level era-heralder, what surfaces is an earnest, almost midcentury humanism, interested in charting the distinctions between man and machine.