sean.earth
Hyper-accelerationist & hacker building @streams.site to help you navigate an increasingly chaotic world.
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This was all anyone debated within tech for the first 1.5 years after ChatGPT was released. The resolution was that it's not a technical problem but a cultural one like social media, so the market is preferable to giving control of it to the government, who would likely abuse it far worse.
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sorry grace we only have one brush available
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You can judge people with 98% accuracy just based on their media tab
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it's that double 'L' - confuses them every time
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I've read that poem. Simple but elegant.
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Creating anything requires the person to first make a commitment to figuring out what they actually want in some detail and that on it's own is more than most people want to do 99% of the time.
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Good point. I failed to fully appreciate the complex and wondrous ecosystem dynamics at play. Or I fulfilled my role as the mocker perfectly, enabling the continued emergence of a beautiful but perverse dance.
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I keep trying this bluesky site but keep being reminded it's somehow even dumber than twitter
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Invest in white collared shirts
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Buddhist cat: Bark! Bark!
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I only wish Neil Postman had lived long enough to see how much worse it could get
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Okay I'm stealing that and listing "epistemic inoculation" as a skill on my linkedin
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Why punish yourself so? These replies all appear to be generated by a particularly bad LLM trained purely on angsty teenagers' comments pulled from old tumblr and myspace posts. Less intelligible than average 4chan slop.
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This is wonderful. You had me at "there's a confusing diagram". Absolute catnip
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Agree. The API and open ecosystem is so much better. Elon seems determined to make that part as bad as possible on X
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Interesting list. If you're on a Steinbeck tear, I suggest The Winter of our Discontent if you haven't already read it. Very underrated and always relevant, though more so these days.
I recommended everyone in the tech industry read it last summer leading up to the election (they didn't).
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I followed this when it came up and my takeaway was that the attempt at adding a sunsetting clause is so spectacularly illegal that it has no chance of holding up.
Really hoping that is the case
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okay
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Meta is already doing this, just not for that reason
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Did you read "The Deluge"? Really feeling like that timeline now, though somehow even dumber
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But if I don't say "thank you" you might just burn it the rest of the way down
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Kids who grew up with some form of homeschooling and/or homesteading have typically been some of the most interesting and independent people, in my experience.
So weird when people act like those things are a personal attack on them or something
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They need to update the scale
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The intellectual inspiration behind the tariffs
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The intellectual inspiration behind the tariffs
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With the political and cultural changes, I expected everyone to pivot from trying to prevent further climate change to just trying to adapt to it (adds to GDP). I did not expect the general shift to just completely ignoring it, and for there to be such little pushback by the left.
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Right now these mostly exist as group chats but I think that dynamic will escape the GC as it becomes more important to coordinate on filtering data (truth seeking) and disseminating narratives as our information hellscape becomes more chaotic.
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4. Groups with low trust will still work together on specific goals but these guilds are transient.
5. A persons core guild will primarily be defined by high trust - people you may not totally agree with but that you trust to be honest and not betray the guild.
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1. Members will belong to multiple guilds but have one they mostly work with.
2. Members will work across networks/proprietary ecosystems but mainly focus on dominating within one.
3. They will be loose associations that revolve around two axis: goals and trust.
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One change we'll see is the emergence of what I think of as informal Guilds, in the WoW sense.
These are groups of people who band together to fight in our information wars. Some characteristics include:
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The Splinternet has been discussed and that is happening, but more along national lines - this is a level below that, rewriting the basic agreements of the, now obsolete, Open Web.
And, no, blockchain won't solve this.
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Much more like ordering drone-delivered pizza from within a video game that has proprietary chat you use to coordinate with some strange subset of co-workers on contract projects. Decentralization, but in highly non-interoperable ways.
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The new thing, Cyberspace, will more readily resemble the early sketches from Gibson and Stephenson, in that they will be fractured, adversarial, and strange.
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This has been happening for a while but between the collapse of the ad-supported free web, the destruction of trust in institutions, and the current rise of LLMs-as-an-Oracle, the pace is accelerating.
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As the web dies out, it is being replaced by a confusing hybrid of interfaces, many closed-wall gardens, some decentralized, some living in apps and barely touching the web.
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Side note: the continued acceleration and partial disintegration of the web mentioned above is actually a part of birthing the real cyberspace that the web was a promise of but never really became
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Certainly AI plays a big part in all this. The sloppification is real. The bots are real. The insane amounts of web scraping are very real (and pissing people off). However, the loss of trust is ultimately the biggest problem and AI is just an enabler of that, not the cause.
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But, then the internet changed. A LOT. And very fast. And the only way it slows down is if it implodes. Since that would make my startup pointless, I decided to accept reality and design for the continued acceleration and partial disintegration of the web we've known.
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I think there is a definite market for apps like Sublime app that are focused on carving out a curated, cozy piece of the hellscape we call the internet and I was previously angling for some part of that. I wanted to transmute chaos into order.
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Reflecting on my shift in approach for solving the information problem (how to filter the few nuggets out of the slop), it comes down to embracing and leveraging the chaos rather than trying to retreat from it.
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I am now convinced that the optimal interface for engaging with our information ecosystem will be closer to a video game than a web browser or social app.
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Now in the "about to launch and just had a revelation that reframes the whole thing and now have to decide whether to pursue this amazing new direction or just ship the existing version that now feels not as good" startup phase