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Co-Fndr: STOIC Agency | Engineer & Ad Man
"If you make no stuff, there is no stuff." – Elon Musk

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“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.”

- Albert Einstein

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@vintagemapstore McDonald’s MBAs be like:

[Carsley Golf @CarsleyGolf]

One good hole is all it takes to ruin your plans to quit golf forever.

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@awkwardgoogle People will see this and still think, “yep, theory of evolution still intact. Just billions of years and little tweaks here and there.”

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@NUCLRGOLF If you have to put yardages on your clubs, you don’t play that much golf.

[lavitalenta @lavitalenta]

It is Sunday. We must seize the means of relaxation.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🚨 BILL GURLEY: “I would encourage people to read as much as they can about Anthropic … I don't think they think they're writing software. I think they're midwifing a deity.”

JASON: “I know some of these folks … They believe they're so powerful, that they can create God.”

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@disclosetv Rev 13:15- “The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.”

[The Golfer's Journal @GolfersJournal]

Great day for a race.

[𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘴 •°. *࿐ @aestheticwabi]

nature is peaceful because nothing in it is pretending.

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@NoahKingJr The question of all questions.

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@NUCLRGOLF @BrysonLegion @katiemillerpod “Content creation or professional golf” 💀

[Justin Rands @jayrizpop]

yo these old soviet cards are sick

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@PGATOUR Wild

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@unusual_whales 💀

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

The CEO of Take-Two, the company behind GTA, just said something the entire AI industry doesn't want to hear.

And he said it without being anti-AI.

Strauss Zelnick's argument is precise. AI is built on datasets. Datasets are backward-looking. Creativity is forward-looking. A model trained on everything that already exists cannot, by definition, produce something genuinely unexpected. And all hits, by their very nature, are unexpected.

Asset creation and hit creation are not the same thing. AI is getting very good at the first one. The second one is what actually makes money, builds franchises, and changes culture. Nobody has shown AI can do that yet.

The derivative property problem is real. You can clone GTA with existing technology. You could do it before AI. It would take 3 years and look identical. It still wouldn't sell. Because it isn't GTA. It's a clone of GTA.

And consumers, despite what the industry occasionally pretends, can feel the difference between something genuinely new and something assembled from the residue of things that already worked.

Thousands of mobile games ship every year. 0 to 5 hits get made. The same studios make them every time. The technology to make more games has been commoditized for years. It didn't democratize hit creation. It just flooded the market with more forgettable product.

The Silicon Valley thesis that AI unlocks game creation for everyone is true in the same way that cheap cameras unlocked filmmaking for everyone. They did. And the same 5 studios still make the movies everyone watches.

What Zelnick is saying, without quite saying it, is that the thing AI cannot replicate is taste. The instinct for what hasn't been done yet. The cultural antenna that detects the gap in the market before the data can see it.

Data tells you what people wanted. Hits tell people what they want next.

Those are different jobs.

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@catholicpat lol