@plainwhiteclaw within a month of being back at school post lockdown I was forced to listen to wellerman dubstep blasting from some bozo stuck in traffic
doctor who being euthanised via instagram post feels like the very last gasp of the internet’s 2010s british fascination coming to a whimpering end lol
actually your community IS coming to save you, people are going to show up for you, love is going to find you, strangers are going to be like angels, the world conspires for your highest good
you have to believe me when i tell you that going out and experiencing life is really the best medicine for improving your art and writing and restoring your passion
DO NOT BE LIKE MOST PEOPLE
Go outside. Connect with others. Travel. Walk 10k steps a day. Sit in cafés. Build new connections. Get rid of social anxiety. Explore new places. Change your environment for new experiences. Sleep over at a friend’s house. Camping. Hiking. Appreciate nature.
Your house is your base.
The outer world is the sandbox.
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.