The means of production

"Would we claim that the train was a “wrapper” on the steam engine? Is a newspaper “a wrapper” on the printing press? Was the bicycle a “wrapper” of the wheel? By the same logic, one would argue AI is just a wrapper on the semiconductor. Every novel technology nests within it the

A "wrapper" is just progress in diffusion: Would we claim that the train was a “wrapper” on the steam engine? Is a newspaper “a wrapper” on the printing press? Was the bicycle a “wrapper” of the wheel? By the same logic, one would argue AI is just a wrapper on the semiconductor.

Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, Paris (from May 2025)

wrote a post on the historical importance of tinkerers

Re: jobs discourse—a lot of 'elite aspirants' (borrowing the brilliant Peter Turchin's language here) think that a good deal of jobs are below them. When SHEIN emailed Stanford kids recruiting, many took to Stanford discussion boards to say being a SHEIN warehouse manager was

19th-century guy taking a break from real life to read the latest 19th-century novel and it's just realism

it's really easy. these people are using AI to write cover letters, emails, code, interviews, etc. they think they're getting away with it. and they aren't.

My experience of college humanities seminars was often doing the reading and going into class excited to discuss the reading only to find out that we'd spend the whole class discussing what the reading said because no one did the reading and those who did didn't put in the time

This is not the abundance mindset. Abundance = Both/And

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Was it a universal zoomer experience to have an 'internet safety specialist' come in to lecture your seventh grade class about how there is no privacy, everyone can see where you live and who your parents are, there's nothing you can do about it?

Los Angeles was founded 244 years ago today.

One way of understanding this: you don’t need to be sedated when you’re already incredibly sedated