Severin Matusek

We're now living in a system where attention dynamics are the operating system for resource allocation, political decisions, and identity formation.

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.

The magic of the internet is that it lets us build whole new societies on top of the existing one. These new, internet-led societies have repeatedly shown the power to evolve, push, and even overtake the physical society that created them (for good and for ill).

See, the good news about the culture war is the values did change. You can be trans, gay, etc. The bad news is not everyone has to like it. Wanting legal protections is one thing. Wanting consistent representation in the media until your group or lifestyle attains universal acceptance is childish. You know that will never happen.

AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.

Zines are anarchist content-sharing. AI is opposite.

But what we’re not talking about, what we’re not worrying about nearly enough, is the other side of the coin. If we’re running at speed at this, if we’re pushing everyone to use AI because we think it’s some sort of panacea to every business challenge we have, what about atrophy? What about the erosion of expertise, of knowledge, of critical... See more

While people want borderless money in principle, what they really want is to be a part of something.