Every great consumer app is just a slot machine in disguise.

even the way llms surprise is rather unsurprising

Kudos to Anthropic for a killer registry of Claude use cases. If you're struggling for inspiration for what to do with an LLM (any LLM) this is a great set of scenarios to sift through. claude.com/resources/use-…

abundance forces taste to become a moral obligation.

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Still hard to believe that access to infinite information made us dumber

you need to be tastemaxxing. consume esoteric art. pick up a new instrument. weekend-binge a video game, study the sfx, admire the animation. your future prompts will thank you

A world of abundant creation flooding finite human attention shifts the game from building to being noticed.

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We're all basically context janitors for AI at this point

normie trad work: Do the job yourself 1st derivative: Use AI to help you do the job 2nd derivative: Teach AI to do the job for you 3rd derivative: Manage AIs that do the job 4th derivative: Design the AI systems that run the work 5th derivative: Do new work that only AI teams can

Generations of young men sacrificed their youth playing video games so that we could all have super intelligence

i eat drawdowns for breakfast

at the intersection of i've basically been replaced and i've never worked so hard in my life

it genuinely feels like modern life has become a bandwidth trap. the amount available to perceive, read, respond to, maintain, understand, optimize, archive, remember, compare, desire, fear, & keep up with is just grotesquely higher than what a human day can metabolize. even

As the need for precision goes up, the utility of AI goes down.

the craziest part now is that the modern computer probably has to be entirely reinvented, from scratch. pretty much like how jobs & co brought apple ii to market. like not improved. not given a chatbot sidebar or something but really from the ground up like the iphone redefined

The highest-value human work in the AI era will be in domains with sparse reward signals. Internalize this, or watch your value erode over the next decade. Math, programming, rote memorization, data science, all fucked. The classic “smart nerd” jobs are exactly where AI is