Category: Link Library
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Flounder Mode
Very, very good. I resonated, and deeply.
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From Dollar Dominance to Slop Machine
Pt. 2 on attention and a bunch of topics that are funneling through it these days. I say topics, but really they are the things that impact the every day: trust, social safety, integrity, etc. Very good.
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Would live
Want to sit and write a book here. Over 3-6 months with Sadie.
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Are Cultural Products Getting Longer?
The answer seems to be Yes. This is a great counterfactual to attention span narratives. It doesn’t speak to quality, but to attention span. Brain Rot seems to be a real thing (on the surface) but we don’t enjoy it. It seems like we’re immunizing by consuming longer content. I notice this with the kids.…
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The AGI Economy is Coming Faster Than You Think
From Rohit Krishnan in Freethink (new to me). If Pascal’s Wager can be applied the “when AGI”, and I think it certainly can be, it feels wiser to me to assume the kind of thinking below is more likely than not. What to do about that? I have no idea. I don’t see myself rapidly…
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Is now the best time to write a novel?
From this post, “The Cultural Decline of Literary Fiction.” I think the most important conclusion is that all of this is actually good news for aspiring writers: it’s not that the philistine dopamine-addled masses will never be capable of giving you the praise you deserve, it’s just that (1) basically no one is writing literary…
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Feeling cautiously optimistic about American democracy
A clear eyed commentary on the question of this authoritarian moment and the movement between Collapse and Resistance. Maybe we’re always in between those two, but this indicates the pendulum is swinging back to the middle. A few excerpts: Essentially, Trump seems to be governing like…a President in his second term. Typically, two-term Presidents try…
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Which Countries Won’t Exist in the 22nd Century?
From Tyler Cowen in the FP: The biggest mistake we could make is to assume that political evolution is over, and that history represents ongoing directional progress toward ever more well-run nation-states. Port-au-Prince still has something to teach us in this regard. I’ve been thinking about why it would be that the United States wouldn’t…
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The Gentle Singularity
Interesting post from Sam Altman on his blog after the release of o3 Pro yesterday. Proclaiming that we’ve entered the intelligence takeoff is more than notable. As he rightly notes, being where we are would have sounded crazy just five years ago and might sound crazier than where we’ll be in 2030 based on where…