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Modern systems are about occupying your attention. Products like TikTok don't cram things into your brain, they occupy your attention. Your attention is rivalrous, which means that if something occupies it in a given mome...
People who grew up with TikTok might not know what it feels like to reflect. They might not have a cognitive immune system to protect against informational junk food. They never ha...
...onal Intelligence knows a lot but.. Google knows you on Google. Apple on Apple. TikTok on TikTok. ChatGPT in ChatGPT. Your life is the union of all of it. If context isn't portable, you're fragmented - or your "favorite" AI becomes your...
...ubai Chocolate suddenly become such a Thing? Apparently it was partially due to TikTok. But I think there's another inductive engine behind it. When you hear what it's made of, the default reaction is, "... that doesn't sound very tasty...
...s like software that adjusts itself to your preferences. All apps behaving like TikTok algorithms, in a private way."
A positive take on Sora: "Sora feels like enabling everyone to be a TikTok creator." TikTok and Reels are all about addictive consumption. After you're done using it, you're left feeling regret. Instagram at the beginning ma...
Sora and Vibes are slop TikTok, but how much headroom is there? They will presumably get even better at finding hyper-engaging media to get users hooked even more. With TikTok / Re...
... they're creating value for society. But I was talking to someone who worked at TikTok, and they said that internally they don't even pretend to be helping society. "We're making the number go up." "... Is that a good thing for society?...
One of TikTok's innovations was self-distributing content. Originally in social, feeds were manually curated by each user. Then Facebook and others switched to alg...
...ying to spend time.[mp][mq] They have too much time. They currently spend it on TikTok, but they'd likely want to spend it on meaningful things.
... but over time it became about engagement because it had to, to compete against TikTok. German has the concept of Zugzwang: a forced move. In chess, when you're forced to make a bad move to protect the king. If you don't make the compro...
...egretted that a given product had been invented.[op][oq][or] 47% regretted that TikTok had been invented. 50% regretted that Twitter had been invented.
...appearance and taste. Recipes that are published in cookbooks or even shared on TikTok had a real human in the loop asserting, "I tried this and it was good." The LLM can't try the recipe itself, so it can serve you up something gross w...
...e has no direct competitor. Although adjacent categories like Instagram Reels / TikTok exist. Its inherent network effects make it so no one else tries to take it on head on. A super-linear business, powered by an ecosystem.
...puter already thought for me, I don't have to think. I wonder what was added on TikTok since the last time I checked it 30 seconds ago?" A more passive stance. Another option is to say, "Great, now that I don't have to waste mental capa...
Someone told me about a tech talk from someone on TikTok's data science team. TikTok's recommendation algorithm apparently works by creating a precise embedding of a given user, and embedding videos into th...
...ew viral app that does cool things with your data could go viral as easily as a TikTok video. Apps that do something with your data don't go viral today because users have to place trust in an app they just met that could do anything it...
...gent cathedral-style outcomes. Last week I talked about the Sea Shanty craze on TikTok. A natural example is termite mounds. Beautiful, monumental outcomes, without a central planner.