The billion-dollar graveyard in music: "virtual concerts." $100M+ spent trying to recreate reality only to build inconvenient passivity. Fans don't want to watch music; they want to be in it. This is how music moves from background noise to a destination:
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Every major technological expansion eventually requires an external enemy to bypass standard public scrutiny.
Framing local infrastructure friction as a coordinated security threat is a classic exercise in strategic threat inflation.
IndieWire: Kane Parsons’ Freaky Liminal Horror Is Both Mind-Bending and Brain-Freezing
"Backrooms is a movie more likely to blow young minds, but remember the first horror movie you saw that changed who you were? This movie will be that for a lot of people."
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💡 Example:
A founder who refuses to pitch VCs during a market downturn, waiting instead until they've achieved cash-flow positivity for total leverage in the negotiation.
Kural 491: On Strategic Advantage
“Do not initiate a strategic move, nor underestimate your competition, until you have secured a position of absolute advantage.”
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🌱 Personal:
Never enter a difficult conversation or high-stakes negotiation on the other person's terms or emotional turf. Choose the time and setting that allows you to remain calm, objective, and level-headed.
PSA: If you find yourself looking for a high-profile rap album from a major artist this week, GNX is just as good today as it was the day it dropped. 💿
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For three years, the industry consensus was that AI would inevitably replace all cognitive labor.
Yesterday, the Vatican dropped a 42,000-word moral warning on AI labor displacement.
By this morning, we're being told a jobs apocalypse is off the table.
The speed of the narrative calibration is remarkable.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the rapid development and adoption of AI would not lead to a global ‘jobs apocalypse’ and the technology had not claimed as many white-collar jobs as he had feared https://t.co/bdQjWfvPaS
Philosophy, religion, and the humanities aren’t elitist institutions -- they're literally how humans have organized self-reflection for millennia.
Dismissing them as "elitist" is a highly convenient way to reject any framework of moral restraint.
Very elitist: "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large" . Humans were not born with humanities or religion or philosophers or elitist institutions with their view of superiority. The question is for humans to answer without the pretense of elitism!