gonna play the heck out of GTA 6 simply because of its status as a cultural artefact: the final big game built before LLMs
no-one will ever invest this much in a game again, no software will ever encode this quantity of hands-on human labour again. the last of the great pyramids
Contrary to belief, I am of the opinion that even as Claude reaches extreme levels of proficiency, the uneven distribution of agency in the world will still mean that there is going to be a clear demarcation between consumers and builders.
It is much easier to teach someone how to do something than it is to teach someone on how to want something.
you need to be tastemaxxing. consume esoteric art. pick up a new instrument. weekend-binge a video game, study the sfx, admire the animation. your future prompts will thank you
it honestly comforts me that we’re collectively coming to the realization that this level of Phone All the Time is unsustainable and making us worse. maybe naive but i hope this is the beginning of a quieter, slower era where we all look up and return to ourselves and each other
Just realised that the "poring over old photos and documents" scenes in books and movies, as a tension-building staple, are now practically over with AI.
Much like mobile phones killed the "we got separated" plot.