Petter Englund

Filmmaker │ Regular Contributor on Medium │ Nostr in expanded Bio

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

AI doesn't have a POV

It collapses production costs and democratises storytelling, indeed, but it doesn’t replace perspective.

In a world where anyone can create the "$10M shot", POV will matter even more because it’s the only thing left to differentiate yourself

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

Comments on this reflects the state of the human condition.

This sizzle looks freaking amazing, it showcases a wide veriety of different difficult shots, expensive, over the top and intense.

Traditional tools here would make any of these scenes extremely expensive to make. Yet with something like Runway this becomes a lot easier.

Majority of industry people and creatives are still in the dark completely of what goes into making a sizzle like this. The creative planning, the process, and of course the execution.

You'll see commenters blast the same narrative:

"AI slop", "who will watch 4 second clip movies", "no storytelling", "yap yapping yap yap".

They are looking for a binary answer to a nuanced situation.

When I'm arguing that Hollywood is cooked, you first need to understand what Hollywood is. Just take a look at the credits of any big blockbuster movie. 90% if not more on the credit list, will be VFX.

So while you might have 2 writers, 2 top actors + 3 supporting in a movie, you'll have 1000+ vfx artists.

Hollywood is not the top actors, or the writers, Hollywood is the VFX teams, the post crews, the gaffers and tech staff, the set builders and everything in between.

But if I can virtually create any set, cast any character, create any visual effect I want in minutes not months. My creative exploration and output will 10x easily. Now do that with everyone on a production team, and you are going to see gains that make the industrial revolution look like a delayed flight.

There is no doubt we are in the middle of a total reset of everything as we know it. The only thing holding stuff back is viscocity in society and peoples hate for change. The winners are the early adopters, the people that are understanding that change here is unstoppable.

I personally have met many people who are now as single or small teams building and creating generational wealth from working with these tools. No BS. People are printing money. With no end in near sight.

Learn to whisper to these tools, and up-skill yourself, you'll thank me later.

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

Slop existed at industrial scale before AI. It's not something new

[TastefulLindy @LindyTasteful]

Netflix has operated the largest production studio in the last 15 years (Grok estimates over $135B in expenditure)
and there is basically no cultural legacy with any of the output.

No enduring brands, no iconic films, all the content will just be forgotten in the ether.

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

@LindyTasteful Yes, it's crazy

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

@Awads_ @paulg @dadiomov After 34 transactions, only half the original value remains with a 2% fee

Microtransactions likely mean that many per day or hour, maybe even per second

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

@Danny14396 Low rates inflate housing prices. What you “save” on interest, you pay back in inflated prices

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

@TheSpaceSoviet The market ** is ** crashing but up

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

@CantillonCH @GeorgeSelgin i'm not promoting anything

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

@GeorgeSelgin I don't believe value requires a human valuer as the universe has a normative structure

well aware that's not the finance textbook definition, George

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

@MattBGilliland @Oakmanbearcow @BentleyShafer @GeorgeSelgin That's the anti-realist position restated as an argument. I already addressed why it's circular

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

Yep sure - but ultimately it's a ontological question.

Many agree we see reality through a story. The question is whether reality ** is ** only a story, or whether it exists independently of us.

If the latter, stuff may have intrinsic value regardless our believes.

Many say money is a pure human construct. The ** form ** may be, but what about the function?

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

@Oakmanbearcow @BentleyShafer @MattBGilliland @GeorgeSelgin Sound money has intrinsic value in that it upholds and communicates economic truth

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

@shannholmberg How do you handle cross links when your wiki grows to 10,000+ files?

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

@defileo What happens when you have 10,000 articles?

There's a scalability problem.

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

@thisistamhn @ashpreetbedi Why not let vector cast a wide net and find the starting point, and then traverse from there?

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Bruce Springsteen closed his concert in Minneapolis by paying tribute to Renée Good and encouraging fans to heed John Lewis's famous call to "get into good trouble."

"These are the hard times, but we'll make it through. We're the Americans. But I think — I know — for me, the hardest part about all of this is feeling the distance between your neighbors, your fellow citizens, and that distance… well, it can darken your soul. Now we have a leader who says he wishes nothing but ill upon the people he disagrees with, and who disagree with him. I don't feel that way. America, from the beginning, was born out of disagreement. It was built on disagreement. We can argue about what course we thought the country should take while recognizing our common humanity, our dignity and, yes, our unity...

"I go back to thinking about Renée Good's last words before she died, to the man who she was protesting against, the man who would take her life. She said, 'That's fine, dude, I’m not mad at you. I'm not mad.' God bless her.

"So tonight, when you go home, hold your loved ones close. And tomorrow, do as Renée did, find a way to take aggressive, peaceful action to defend our country’s ideals. And as the great civil rights leader John Lewis said, 'Go out and get into some good trouble. Say something. Do something. Help! Sing something!' If you're feeling helpless, hopeless, betrayed, frustrated, angry … I know I've been. That's why The E Street Band is here tonight. This is a tour that was not planned. We’re here tonight because we need to feel your hope, and your strength. And we want to bring some hope and some strength for you. I hope we did that. All I can say is God bless Alex Pretti, God bless Renée Good, God bless you, and God bless America."

📸: Kevin Mazur / Getty Images

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

@EricBalchunas Based on historical data, a turkey has a 100% perfect record of not being eaten up until the day before thanksgiving. This indisputable truth is the ultimate anxiety killer for turkeys.

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

@aakashgupta Does your inductive analysis take into account the fall of the world order for the past 80 years?

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

People who write these bait tweets forget the most basic truth about literature and art - you cannot predict a hit from past data.

"Senior Publishing Strategist at Penguin Random House with 20 years of identifying books..." -> that takes taste. AI doesn’t have taste.

[Mr. Jason💡 @jason_coder0]

🚨BREAKING: The book you have been postponing for 3 years can be finished in 48 hours.

The only thing that was stopping you was not knowing these 9 Claude prompts:

(Bookmark 🔖 before they realize)

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

Can’t believe it’s been 5 years! From the first spark to a continent-wide movement #ABC is growing stronger. Blantyre will be lit in December ⚡️💥 #ABC2026 #BitcoinInAfrica #5YearsStrong

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

@damienghader @Lovable Cheat sheet

[Petter Englund @PetterEnglund]

You are not the spokesperson for OpenClaw - stop acting like it.

[Sam Altman @sama]

Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings.

OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that.