Severin Matusek

I’ve noticed a new trend among the chattering classes of online AI guy hypebeast. Their current stage of grief over AGI not arriving or having very little to show in the way of ROI for their LLMs has shifted to blaming the users. To them, it’s not that AI is not working as they intended; it’s the people who are too stupid to understand how to use... See more

What’s notable is the rhetoric about Sora introducing a Cambrian explosion of human creativity. Liberated from the bottlenecks of charisma, skill and craft, real creativity – i.e ideas – can now flourish and be channeled via text prompt.

NFTs offer digital commerce something the Internet lacks: scarcity and authenticity.

This report, which will drop over the course of five days, also marks the launch of Season 1 of $STREAM — our new research token designed to incentivize and reward collaborative research, knowledge-sharing and community-building in music and technology.

Generative AI is disruptive, is transformative, and is reducing friction, but the economic incentives for using it are geared far less toward supercharging human potential and much more toward producing abundant slop.

Introducing the TBPN Media Market Map. Understanding the evolving media landscape can be confusing, even bewildering. From Neo Trad Media to the East Coast Underground, we put together a simple market map to help make sense of it all. https://t.co/J7SSaDiXPl

The belief that the Earth is flat is not in and of itself problematic for most people, since most people will never need to circumnavigate the globe. However, the effects on adherents’ social relationships are problematic. The belief both signals and generates frame shear, the lack of mutual intelligibility, with all except those who share... See more