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A HackerNews comment that stuck with me: "From the very beginning Facebook has been an AI wearing your friends as a skinsuit."
In the modern world we're all stuck in a fast-thinking loop. It keeps on ratcheting up. This will get worse in an era of AI. The importance of stillness and reflection will become incre...
Trying to think too many steps ahead gets you stuck in compounding loops of uncertainty. Just execute: guess and check. Take an action and see how the universe responds. Not simulation, action. Thinkin...
A dystopia in a maximal antisocial LLM world: We'll all be stuck in our own hyper personalized bubble only able to talk to others mediated by LLMs, all of which work for one overlord with goals not aligned with you...
You get stuck in gravity wells even if you can see them. Transparency doesn't help you avoid gravity wells. Everyone falls into gravity wells by default. Escaping ...
Going for more scale incrementally makes sense, but gets you stuck in local maxima. Going for less scale than today almost never does. Companies walk up the scale ladder until they're trapped with a local maxima. The...
...What about tech as it should exist? Acknowledging where tech has gotten lost or stuck or diverged from its ideals, while pointing a way for it to regain them.
...oduct and so they don't want to leave it. Negative: the user gets more and more stuck and can't leave the product. Sometimes the two sides are related; as in a user storing more data in a system and building their workflows around it. ...
...tional ones. The latter are what you want to want. The social infinities we get stuck in are often the emergent ones.
...d its throughline. What are the things that were originally surprising but that stuck? Then tell a plausible story where they weren't just random. You're mining the collective insight of all of the humans who touched the system. Every ...
...e they're so large. Pick the one that you believe in most, because you will get stuck in one.
A similar trap early movers get stuck in: AOL-ing yourself. A bet of being a proprietary walled garden with an early fast and powerful start, but going up against an open system. Leaning ...
Venkat Rao's The Gramsci Gap has stuck with me. The famous Gramsci quote feels inescapably true today. "The old world is dying, the new one struggles to be born. Now is the time of monster...
If you think you've got it, you'll keep going. If you're stuck, you might be ready for a change. If you're in a crisis now, use it to change. The alternative is that you fall back into a dysfunctional homeostasis...
Theory X leadership styles can get stuck in a self-defeating trap. As a reminder: Theory X assumes that people are by default lazy and incompetent. Theory Y assumes that people by default wi...
...n a way that they couldn't just teleport out of instantly. "Oh crap, I could be stuck in a room with them, and if they hate me that would be awkward, or maybe even dangerous!" An expectation of being in it for the long-haul leads to an...
If you're stuck in a dark room where you think there are likely a bunch of creepy crawlies, it's terrifying to turn on the lights!