andrew

[andrew @androovision]

@sama stop

[andrew @androovision]

officials at the highest levels of office, presenting workslop

[PBS News @NewsHour]

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted.

An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

[andrew @androovision]

effort is free

[Philadelphia Eagles @Eagles]

Chop wood carry water

[andrew @androovision]

failure of attention

[Zvi Mowshowitz @TheZvi]

https://t.co/ctQmMF4Yta

[andrew @androovision]

lebron invites us all to remember.. it’s not all about the money

[andrew @androovision]

https://t.co/Ttqgf0T0Bx

We live in a post-literacy world:

<50% of American adults reported reading a book in 2022

<38% read a novel or short story

<16% of Americans regularly read for pleasure

"Gambling has become a more common leisure activity than reading a book: Last year, 57% of Americans placed a bet."

[Blockhead @BlockheadNYC]

I shit on AI a lot but this close up of the AI image trump posted of people at the 250th anniversary fair is HIGH ART.

[andrew @androovision]

lmao

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Our new LLM.

Available now.

[Kyla Scanlon @kylascan]

One of the most important things to understand about the moment we are living in

[andrew @androovision]

@justinskycak love this

[andrew @androovision]

@davidad 👏

[andrew @androovision]

Based on the amount of bullshit flooding the internet because of AI, I'm skeptical of claim that AI will eliminate bullshit jobs and think it may be just the opposite

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Bob McGrew has a framework I keep thinking about: in the AI future there are only two jobs. The Lone Genius and the Manager.

That's it. Everything else gets absorbed.

The Lone Genius is the person sitting alone at a computer, amplified 1000x by AI. One person with taste, vision, and relentless focus who can now do what used to take a team of 50.

The Manager is the person who becomes CEO of their own "firm" where most of the employees are AI agents. They define the goals. They decide what matters. They coordinate. The AI does the execution.

The Marxists will hear "two jobs" and panic. "What about everyone else?!" But here's what they're missing: AI doesn't shrink these two categories. It explodes them open. More people get to be geniuses. More people get to be managers. The barrier to entry for both just collapsed.

What actually gets eliminated? David Graeber called them "bullshit jobs." Graeber was no libertarian! He inspired Occupy Wall Street.

His words: "Huge swaths of people spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe don't really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound. It is a scar across our collective soul."

Graeber said bullshit jobs are "a form of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being." They induce "hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing."

This is who the left should be fighting for. Not to preserve those jobs. To liberate people from them and give them better ones.

The dirty secret of the modern economy: millions of people sit in roles so pointless that even they can't justify their existence. Compliance layers. Reporting layers. Coordination layers. Meeting-about-the-meeting layers. They know it's meaningless. It eats them alive.

AI eats those layers. Good. That's a jailbreak.

What I love about Bob's framework is where it points. The Lone Genius used to require a PhD, a lab, institutional backing. Now a 19-year-old with taste and Codex can ship what took a research team a year. The genius bottleneck was never talent. It was access.

The Manager used to mean you needed to hire 50 people, raise money, build an org chart. Now you can orchestrate a fleet of AI agents from your laptop. The management bottleneck was never skill. It was capital.

AI doesn't concentrate genius and management into fewer hands. It distributes them into more hands. The working class kid in West Virginia. The single mom in Ohio. The 55-year-old who got laid off and now builds software for the first time. Those are some of Bob's future geniuses and managers.

The best founders I see at YC are already living this. They toggle between both modes in the same day. Morning: lone genius, creative insight, the thing nobody else sees. Afternoon: manager, spinning up agents, steering, shipping.

The cycle time between genius and manager IS the new productivity metric.

So when someone tells you AI means "only two jobs and everyone else starves," quote Graeber to them, they’ll get it.

Graeber knew the real violence was making people do meaningless work and pretending it was dignity. AI ends that. More genius. More agency. Fewer spiritual prisons.

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

How Americans aged 25-35 spend their free time, 1920-2026. A shift toward ever more leisure and solitude. The most underrated change is the loss of time spent “doing nothing” (i.e. introspecting).
https://t.co/FBA2Ck504V

[andrew @androovision]

3 Drake albums

[andrew @androovision]

@bryan_johnson Nice! I think it’s very natural to find one’s way to prayer during the long tail “integration” period after 5 MeO.

I personally find prayer to be the single most effective way to ground myself, come down from informational overload and engage with what really matters

[andrew @androovision]

prime your psyche to enter into a near permanent state of annealing

[𝚟𝚒𝚎 ⟢ 🔁 @viemccoy]

When you play a video game, especially an old one, you assume that every artifact you encounter and every scene you occupy are intentionally made and thus contain nothing but signal. You must live your life with this same assumption. Failure to do so results in the mundanification and engrayment of what otherwise could be enchanting and educational.

Treating every moment as though it were a lesson and every encounter as though it were a message primes your psyche to enter into a near permanent state of annealing. It channels into an ancient present-tense attitude that signals to your entire system that you are *here* and *now* and ready for whatever encounters may bolster your ability to engage in self-becoming. If every moment is not some signal towards self-actualization, and this must include boring moments and moments of rest too, then you are giving up precious momentum with you could otherwise snowball into a great story of becoming. Everything starts with now. Pay attention!

[andrew @androovision]

@pleometric they’re not ready

[maddie rune🪰 @themaddierune]

Literature is humanity’s longest conversation with itself about what it means to be alive. It has been going on for thousands of years. You are not late, you are not unqualified, you are not too much or too little or too broken. Pull up a chair. This conversation was always about you.

[andrew @androovision]

@ViceLitty wtf

[andrew @androovision]

A deep understanding of language (from extensive reading + writing) = deep understanding of reality.

“Taste” will be important. So will having a grip on reality in an increasingly AI-generated information ecosystem &amp; post-literacy world.

Humanities is the way

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

An advantage of the humanities — of reading &amp; seeing a wide range of great works from many perspectives &amp; cultures — is that you develop your sense of taste.

In a world where anyone can produce a flood of writing &amp; visual output is for cheap, that has never been more important.