Media has progressed through different paradigms.
Media has progressed through different paradigms. Poetry Printing press TV Infinite scroll At each, the time you get for contemplation before retransmission goes down.
Topic: printing press
12 chunks · 10 episodes
Topic summary
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- printing press appears in 12 chunks across 10 episodes, from 2024-10-07 to 2025-09-02.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 8/18/25 (2025-08-18), with 3 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with power dynamic, social media, and infinite software, while by chunk count it sits between principal agent and situated software; its yearly rank moved from #174 in 2024 to #69 in 2025.
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The printing press kicked off the enlightenment.
The printing press kicked off the enlightenment. LLMs have the potential to be the printing press for turing completeness.
The printing press led to more literacy.
The printing press led to more literacy. There was more to read, which made reading more valuable. Which then led to more demand for books, which compounded.
The movable-type printing press was invented in China and Korea hundreds of years before Gutenberg.
The movable-type printing press was invented in China and Korea hundreds of years before Gutenberg. However those languages had way more characters so it wasn't plausible to scale. ...
Before the printing press, only priests were allowed to interpret scripture, leading to a highly centralized power structure.
Before the printing press, only priests were allowed to interpret scripture, leading to a highly centralized power structure. Once the printing press existed, Martin Luther wa...
The printing press came, so Martin Luther could emerge.
The printing press came, so Martin Luther could emerge. The LLM has come. When will our Martin Luther emerge?
AI has the potential to have as much positive impact for humanity as the printing press, electricity, or the internet.
AI has the potential to have as much positive impact for humanity as the printing press, electricity, or the internet. Whether it will be like electricity (universal infrastructure) or like social media (engagement-maxing aggregators) de...
Everything is held in delicate balance by cost structures.
...ty… or great. LLMs, like other disruptive general purpose technologies like the printing press, electricity, and the internet, fundamentally change cost structures.
A disproportionate amount of innovation happens in taboo areas.
...led it, "the Low slung engine of technical progress". Apparently soon after the printing press, erotic works were some of the most popular works. Apparently on Open Router the top use cases are coding and erotic chats (and coding only broke thr...
The printing press and the web were about force multipliers on words.
The printing press and the web were about force multipliers on words. Words that can do things is the next step. The next force multiplier: a turing-complete printing p...
LLMs are a disruptive innovation that will change the world.
... that will change the world[afb][afc][afd]. On the same scope of impact as: The printing press Electricity The internet. The closer you look, the more obvious this becomes. Disruptive innovations scramble the competitive dynamics and enable who...
LLMs are not the thing; they create the conditions for the thing.
...rupt the cost structures, enabling the creation of a new thing. Back before the printing press, the cost of book production was massive. The people who illuminated manuscripts knew how expensive it was to produce books, and that's why only a sm...