Jeronimo Tani

Design is liquid, creative alchemist. Passionate about design, tech, art, and 🎾.

[Jeronimo Tani @JeronimoTani]

Story is the fundamental operating system of human reality.

[Jeronimo Tani @JeronimoTani]

@andrewmichta It is actually a very good idea if you really cared that much. Go to any beach and plastic caps is what you will find the most.

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

AI will create more jobs than any other technology in history.

The doomers' fundamental error isn't just the lump of labor fallacy. It's deeper than that.

They assume a finite problem space.

This is the fundamental error of AI and job doomers. They look at the economy and see a fixed amount of work to be done, a pie that can only be sliced thinner as machines take bigger bites. They see humans a competitive resource for a finite amount of work and a finite amount of problems to solve that must be eliminated.

This is fundamentally, totally and completely wrong.

The pie isn't fixed. It never was. And the reason it isn't fixed is baked into the very nature of technology itself.

Technology is nothing but abstraction stacking. And abstraction stacking is infinite. Therefore the work is infinite.

The hammer didn't reduce the amount of work. It moved the work up the stack. And the new work was more complex, more varied, and more interesting than the old work.

Complexity breeds more complexity and more variety.

Once you have houses instead of mud huts, you have a cascade of new problems that didn't exist before. Plumbing. Wiring. Insulation. Roofing materials that don't rot. Drainage systems so the foundation doesn't flood. Fire codes so your neighbor's bad wiring doesn't burn down the whole block.

Each of those problems becomes a job. A plumber. An electrician. An insulator. A roofer. A civil engineer. A building inspector. None of those jobs existed when we lived in mud huts.

They exist because we solved the mud hut problem.

Think of all of human technological development as a stack of abstraction layers, each one built on top of the ones below it.

At the bottom: raw survival. Finding food. Building shelter. Making fire. These are the base-layer problems.

Each major technology wave solved a base-layer problem and in doing so created an entirely new layer of problems above it:

Agriculture solved "how do we reliably eat?" — and created problems of land ownership, irrigation, crop rotation, storage, trade, taxation, and governance.

Writing solved "how do we remember things across generations?" — and created problems of literacy, education, record-keeping, law, bureaucracy, and literature.

The printing press solved "how do we spread knowledge at scale?" — and created problems of intellectual property, censorship, journalism, publishing, public opinion, and democratic discourse.

The steam engine solved "how do we generate mechanical power without muscles?" — and created problems of factory design, worker safety, urban planning, railroad engineering, coal mining, labor relations, and environmental pollution.

Electricity solved "how do we deliver energy anywhere?" — and created problems of grid design, power generation, appliance manufacturing, electrical safety codes, utility regulation, and an entire consumer electronics industry.

The Internet solved "how do we connect all human knowledge?" — and created problems of cybersecurity, digital privacy, online commerce, content moderation, network infrastructure, cloud computing, social media dynamics, and an entire digital economy that employs tens of millions.

Notice the pattern?

Each solution didn't just solve a problem.

It created an entirely new problem space that was larger, more complex, and more varied than the one it replaced.

The stack grows. It never shrinks.

It's turtles all the way down and all the way up.

[Jeronimo Tani @JeronimoTani]

@tszzl https://t.co/fxBmTOwbMU

[Jeronimo Tani @JeronimoTani]

@tszzl I wrote a substack about this topic https://t.co/ICYxzPktHo

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

You are looking at a nuclear-powered robot picking up a rock that has been sitting on Mars for billions of years, on a planet 140 million miles away from us.

READ THAT AGAIN.

[Vai Viswanathan @vai_viswanathan]

https://t.co/pzlJpu7QyR

[Cultura Inquieta @culturainquieta]

El clip colaborativo del rapero sueco Yung Lean y GENER8ION supera los límites de un simple videoclip musical y ya es un festín visual extraordinario. 🔥

La coreografía, a cargo del gran coreógrafo francés Damien Jalet. 💥

Hoy, 29 de abril, Día internacional de la danza.

[World of Science @Science_TechTV]

neuron trying to connect to other neurons

[Jeronimo Tani @JeronimoTani]

“Prompt it till you make it” is the new “fake it till you make it”

[Jeronimo Tani @JeronimoTani]

The creative of the future is the person who can still create the sublime inside systems increasingly designed to produce the plausible. https://t.co/Ip7iAS5NqC

[Jeronimo Tani @JeronimoTani]

The creative of the future is the person who can still create the sublime inside systems increasingly designed to produce the plausible. https://t.co/Ip7iAS5NqC

[Jeronimo Tani @JeronimoTani]

The more infinite, synthetic, and optimized digital life becomes, the more valuable presence becomes. https://t.co/JgdJC9Yfnt

[Jeronimo Tani @JeronimoTani]

The more infinite, synthetic, and optimized digital life becomes, the more valuable presence becomes. https://t.co/JgdJC9Yfnt

[Jeronimo Tani @JeronimoTani]

Beyond Automation. Why Simulation May Be the Next Frontier https://t.co/OR1qZr5yZP

[Jeronimo Tani @JeronimoTani]

Beyond Automation. Why Simulation May Be the Next Frontier https://t.co/OR1qZr5yZP

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When scientists put slime mold over a map of Tokyo, they used food to represent urban areas.

After a day the mold created a network nearly identical to Tokyo's rail network: all this without any brain.

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[Jeronimo Tani @JeronimoTani]

“Prompt it till you make it” is the new “fake it till you make it”

[Jeronimo Tani @JeronimoTani]

@joon_s_pk @karpathy @drfeifei @adamdangelo @rauchg @scottbelsky This is a great idea @joon_s_pk !!