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“to live is to risk it all” -Rick // founder @wearesuperbud ai commerce // thinking about tech and people @wearebigcontent

[Red @imRedmann]

@lauren_wilford Asking for directions, the time, the weather, etc were all important interactions - small helpful acts that created social glue

[Red @imRedmann]

@atmoio rm rf-ing our homes is poetic

[Red @imRedmann]

@ad0rnai hand-writing is also slower, and errors are more costly to change, which encourages more planning and thoughtfulness. the cross-outs and carrots were lovely decorations too

[Red @imRedmann]

@sporadica the fix was right there all along, hiding in plain sight

[Red @imRedmann]

@signulll the return to real social is beautiful. the incentives shift back to connection and conversation instead of attention warfare. i forgot how much more enjoyable it is to talk to people than just at them

[Red @imRedmann]

@biancoresearch how they use it matters. students should use ai, but not to completely outsource understanding

[Red @imRedmann]

@Scobleizer creating those mental maps used to exercise the spatial reasoning part of our brains

same reason people always lose their phones and other shit now too - just like gps, they need air tags and find my nonstop because their brains are out of shape

[Red @imRedmann]

@Austen labor is the real savings. you can have two people build and manage something bespoke rather than configure and support legacy stuff. but, the ideal is still paying nobody at all to do it

[Red @imRedmann]

@NaithanJones if only the signal that mattered was conviction and/or objective truth… maybe that’s where an infinite loop of contrarian anti-contrarianism lands though haha

[Red @imRedmann]

this might break containment and become the same for all digital comms. what happens when people don’t talk directly to each other anymore??

[Can Vardar @icanvardar]

linkedin really just became moltbook

[Red @imRedmann]

@seyitaylor amen. ditch all the bait and incentivize actual conversations

[Red @imRedmann]

@checkedz @atmoio For sure. Most of the world just won’t pay a $200 / mo sub (or even $20). So, they started chasing enterprise $$. But, now enterprise is asking ROI questions, so what happens next?

[Mo @atmoio]

I’m freaking out about Sonnet 5

[Red @imRedmann]

@sovkoplas91457 @atmoio So true haha. Nobody is rationalizing that getting better means getting more expensive, and getting more expensive asks some tough questions

[Red @imRedmann]

@checkedz @atmoio You’re right. “Too dangerous” is better marketing than “too expensive” - everyone avoiding talking about the economics

[Red @imRedmann]

you can’t forgive technology. the idea that a waymo or ai can be forgiven implies they have some sentient intent - they don’t. the accountability for mistakes traces to the creators, managers or users.

agree that the standard of perfection makes no sense though - if the outcomes are better than a human alternative we should be ok with the mistakes

[Red @imRedmann]

We never needed on-demand access to super-addictive gambling

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Gambling disorder cases have started skyrocketing in states where sports betting is legal (this started ~May, 2018) following the end of COVID.

They've remained flat from COVID to today in states where it has remained illegal.

[Red @imRedmann]

@edzitron 2030 is gonna pop off

[Red @imRedmann]

@kirawontmiss bc the old way of “seeing and sharing our world” sucked

[Red @imRedmann]

The solopreneurship porn actually feels kinda sad to me. “Just me and all this money” seems a lot less fun than working with a team

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

New from Stripe Economics: The Age of the Solopreneur

https://t.co/GTS8jEcK5z

[Red @imRedmann]

The crucible of Stack Overflow forged a priceless network of knowledge that accelerated engineering into the llm era. Did they, and their contributors, deserve to have their work stolen because people were mean sometimes??

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@Austen On the other hand, if anyone deserved to lose their users, it was them. They allowed a notoriously brutal culture to flourish there. Obviously people will prefer to ask questions of an AI that won't ridicule them for asking.