Citrini’s model implicitly assumes humans won’t create new work once AI cheapens cognition.
Which is the one assumption economic history keeps humiliating.
Painful transitions, yes. Permanent economic death spiral, no.
Been taking some time to seriously ask what I’m doing here; why I’m still here; whether I give a shit; what that means. I think I’m settling on some answers I like. Will write more soon.
I found a journal entry from 2015 where I wrote, in all earnestness, that my life would be complete if I could just work from home and not have a boss. I now work from home and have no boss.
I do not necessarily feel complete...
https://youtu.be/dsYjBCINRvc
“I like drinking Pepsi”
Bluesky: so you like exploiting workers then
Mastodon: you’re probably drinking it at the wrong temperature
Threads: I have never heard of Pepsi you didn’t include enough context do better
Twitter: *OpenClaw spam replies*
I would like to formally propose that we stop calling people “controversial” when what we mean is “a danger to others.” Ted Bundy was not “controversial.” He was a fucking murderer. Apply this framework broadly.
The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore. It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that isn't remotely relevant...
“just asking questions” always leads to the exact same conclusions. i’m just asking questions about vaccines [concludes vaccines are bad]. i’m just asking questions about the moon landing [concludes it was fake]. You are not asking. you are telling with an upward inflection
it is wild how completely crypto has missed the bus on…everything. we had an ethos and a purpose and then we capitulated to being a casino and now we’re begging agent builders to lend us a shred of credibility by giving bots wallets. but crypto itself has no ideas.
“A ~version of what I think is actually true:
There is a boundary between tasks where scaffolding buys you more than scaling, and tasks where scaling is non-negotiable.
This is the Kilburn boundary: the line between problems that are mostly procedural and problems that are representation-heavy.”
https://x.com/Cerebusthefirst/status/2023618088462414286?s=20
we own a bar.
nobody’s talking enough about the impact of ozempic on hospo.
food sales are down for almost everyone who does hospitality, and when nobody’s eating they get hammered // wasted super fast and more folks have to be cut off a lot earlier in the night.
it’s wild.
