Nils Carter

Just some guy into AI.

[Nils Carter @AITechWriter]

@unusual_whales OMG! He made an estimation and then, when evidence showed otherwise, he updated his stance!

The first rule of science is to always get it right the first time, and defend that stance no matter what.

The second is to never, ever revise your opinions based on evidence.

[Nils Carter @AITechWriter]

@Jtyles @unusual_whales The account didn’t change. You did.

[Nils Carter @AITechWriter]

@Zoom I’ve DM’d and provided a detailed explanation.

[Nils Carter @AITechWriter]

@Zoom Hey, so I just did the update to the latest version. Is there any way to go back to the way transcriptions worked before, where clicking “save transcript” would just save a file to the Zoom folder, rather than open a Save dialog? New way has made me miss important content.

[Nils Carter @AITechWriter]

@Zoom Can I downgrade to the old version?

[Nils Carter @AITechWriter]

@Zoom We’re not talking about the same thing. During a meeting, I click Transcript & save through the meeting. Problems:

1. The transcripts now don’t start until I actually open the Transcript feature, so I miss context.
2. It saves a new file every time.

It was MUCH better before.

[Nils Carter @AITechWriter]

I’m an AI optimist. But being an optimist about something is no excuse to blind yourself to the issues around it, or the real concerns others have about it. The concerns are real. We don’t all weigh them the same, but that doesn’t make them any less real.

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@kushdesai @unusual_whales Generalist opinion.

All most hear is “AI will take your job” & “permanent underclass”. With lack of worker protections + ethics issues + data centers + economic struggles, it’s no shock that “AI will sell all your info + take your job & you won’t escape it” doesn’t resonate.

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@bryan_johnson What is “Junk light”? (Serious question)

Started following you more seriously recently. Thanks for sharing all you’re learning. And one mindset you shared few weeks ago, about scheduling your life around sleep vs the other way around, has already been a huge impact on me.

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@Vinny11b @HumanUpgrade_ Came here for this. Leaving satisfied.

[Nils Carter @AITechWriter]

@rand_longevity I wish it was that easy. Have tried it, different formulations, even vegan ones. (Allergic to both milk and beef, so it removes many options.) In all cases, similar results: inflammatory reaction, GI issues. Just my luck, I guess.

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@skeptrune *BonzoBuddy ensues*

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@RepJackKimble “Immigrants… should start their own country… I think a whole country or immigrants could really be a great opportunity”

You.
Just.
Described.
America.

Immigrants are our super power.

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@AdamWoptimized Precisely what I was starting to do myself. Thank you for the great work.

[Nils Carter @AITechWriter]

@JustinAlexP @paulg Writer here. And it’s not hyperbole. Use requests boil down to make it short, easy to read, guide me (bullet points). You can do nuance, but ELI10 and ELI5 are things.

General rule is to write at 6th grade level, but even that’s changing.

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@beffjezos They aren’t. “Completely open borders” is a lie sold by people who fear monger in order to justify completely closed borders.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Jensen Huang just dismantled the entire “AI is coming for your job” narrative in under two minutes.

Huang: “If you apply that to me, you would come to the conclusion what Jensen does for a living is tap on phones and talk. And therefore my job should be gone. But I’m busier than ever.”

The entire panic is built on a category error.

People look at a job and see the task.

They never see the purpose.

The task is typing.

The purpose is solving.

They were never the same thing.

Huang: “There’s a fundamental difference between the purpose of the job and the task of the job.”

Every doomsday prediction about AI makes the exact same mistake.

It watches a programmer type and concludes the job is typing.

It watches a designer move pixels and concludes the job is moving pixels.

It watches a writer arrange words and concludes the job is arranging words.

The job was never the motion.

It was the judgment behind it.

Huang: “It is a fundamental flaw that we only need a billion lines of code written. We need a trillion lines of code written.”

The doomsday model assumes demand is fixed.

That there’s a set number of problems in the world and AI is about to solve your share and leave you with nothing.

Demand was never fixed.

It was capped.

Capped by the speed of human fingers on a keyboard.

Hospitals still running on software from 2003. Small businesses still doing invoices by hand. Not because nobody imagined better. Because there weren’t enough humans to build it.

The backlog of unsolved problems on this planet isn’t shrinking.

It’s infinite.

AI didn’t show up to take your seat.

It kicked open a door to a room full of problems nobody had the bandwidth to touch.

Huang: “We have lots and lots of imaginations of all the things that we can do. If we just didn’t have to type anymore, we could go and do those things.”

This is what 50 years of keyboards did to us.

We didn’t build a tool and stay in control.

We built a tool and rearranged our entire lives around serving it.

Huang: “This one little device with a keyboard on it consumed all of our lives to the point where we just can’t imagine living without typing anymore.”

An entire generation measured its worth by how fast it could press buttons on a rectangle.

We called it skill.

We called it career.

We called it identity.

Nobody stopped long enough to ask whether the thing eating 8 hours of every day was the work itself or just the friction standing between us and the work.

Huang: “50 years before that people didn’t do that. And so in the future we’re gonna do less of that, we’re gonna do more of something else.”

The people most terrified of AI aren’t afraid of losing their purpose.

They’re afraid of losing their routine.

Because somewhere along the way routine became identity.

And when the routine disappears, they don’t know who they are without it.

The farmer didn’t stop feeding people when the tractor arrived.

The surgeon didn’t stop saving lives when the robot entered the operating room.

The task changed.

The purpose never did.

AI isn’t coming for your job.

It’s coming for the part of your job you mistook for the whole thing.

Fifty years from now, people will look back at this era the same way we look at scribes copying manuscripts by candlelight.

And they’ll ask the same question we always ask.

Why did it take so long to let go.

[Nils Carter @AITechWriter]

Reading Claude’s thoughts and processing is the new “watching the progress bar”. More informative, sure, but just about as useful.

[Nils Carter @AITechWriter]

With AI, I’ve been able to do more than ever: I’ve written more manuals, audited more knowledge bases, and I’ve even developed tools for my team.

But I’ve also never worked longer or harder.

That’s not a badge. It’s not a brag. It’s exhausting. And it can’t continue.