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People crave boring normie Q&A: what's all your favorite 'being a dad' content? What do you read and listen to, what's worked and what doesn't? How do you balance writing and parenting? And why isn't there more of a niche dad online content community?
This question may be dumb, but its genuine: why should I care about digital privacy? What does it matter if Facebook or goverments (domestic or international) know about me?
I would really love to go deeper on Hinterland with you/any other readers. Great book, but I was left wondering what the author's alternative vision would be. Hinterland book club!!!
Will the end of zero-bound interest rates force owners of major sports teams *cough* ENIC*cough* to invest in their on field product since they can't count on easy financing for stadiums and TV deals, or will a retreat to safety lead to a retrenchment of the current model of no one spending money unless they have oligarch cash?
I read this piece on an "app as a home-cooked meal" and it made me think about how people see programming now. As literacy in coding languages becomes more widespread, will we see the rise of digital diy or digital crafts? What's happening in this space right now? Link to piece: https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
What's your evaluation of the "virtual celebrity" trend, ie Lil Miquela? I thought it was deeply stupid because it was basically just a cartoon that for some reasons journalists decided to write up in this bizarrely naive way. Was this just early and with some combination of ChatGPT/Midjourney it will become more fully realized?
We’re about six months into Elon-Twitter, and for the most part attention seems to have moved on now that it’s clear the platform isn’t literally going to undergo rapid technical collapse. What trajectory do you think new Twitter is on? Will it be able to take the stress of a US presidential election next year?
Hello! I write about hacks and strategies for surviving the digital age and I'd love to speak to you! Would you be willing to be on my podcast? Thanks !
Yeah, this would be good to dig into, agreed! Jaron Lanier saying this week that he thinks the big danger is that well all be driven insane as a species by all the bullshit that AI will be spewing out, and the widespread mistrust it will cause seems like a properly valid concern. 25 years into the social media 'revolution' and we're all seeing what a shit-show of a world it's helped create. Mistrust of the information we're fed is already causing endless social turmoil around the world, what do we expect will happen in a world where we'll never truly know if anything really has had any human input or curation? Will there even be any practical way to fact-check anything without AI being involved in fact-checking itself? This is going to turn into a digital human centipede in no time at all. Do we think it could cause a big push back against trusting any kind of online news for a lot of people? Drive a bigger anti-tech mentality / movement / luddite-activism etc? Or as you say Tyler, will lazy acceptance win out? I suspect we'll fall somewhere closer to the lazy acceptance end the spectrum, and the implications of that are pretty terrifying. Or we'll all go out and touch grass again as a species, which would probably be a good thing? Would be interested to hear Max's take on any of this stuff. There's a lot of myopic takes on AI right now, but I'd like to see more smart people discussing what might happen further down the road tbh.
People crave boring normie Q&A: what's all your favorite 'being a dad' content? What do you read and listen to, what's worked and what doesn't? How do you balance writing and parenting? And why isn't there more of a niche dad online content community?
This question may be dumb, but its genuine: why should I care about digital privacy? What does it matter if Facebook or goverments (domestic or international) know about me?
And what if anything can be done about it
I would really love to go deeper on Hinterland with you/any other readers. Great book, but I was left wondering what the author's alternative vision would be. Hinterland book club!!!
Please talk about the e/acc movement!!
Will the end of zero-bound interest rates force owners of major sports teams *cough* ENIC*cough* to invest in their on field product since they can't count on easy financing for stadiums and TV deals, or will a retreat to safety lead to a retrenchment of the current model of no one spending money unless they have oligarch cash?
I read this piece on an "app as a home-cooked meal" and it made me think about how people see programming now. As literacy in coding languages becomes more widespread, will we see the rise of digital diy or digital crafts? What's happening in this space right now? Link to piece: https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
What's your evaluation of the "virtual celebrity" trend, ie Lil Miquela? I thought it was deeply stupid because it was basically just a cartoon that for some reasons journalists decided to write up in this bizarrely naive way. Was this just early and with some combination of ChatGPT/Midjourney it will become more fully realized?
Do you enjoy Elmore Leonard novels? They feel adjacent to the Dad Thriller movie canon you're building. If so, can you recommend some favorites?
We’re about six months into Elon-Twitter, and for the most part attention seems to have moved on now that it’s clear the platform isn’t literally going to undergo rapid technical collapse. What trajectory do you think new Twitter is on? Will it be able to take the stress of a US presidential election next year?
Now that AI is well normie-core and therefore boring, what is actually fun in tech?
How do you feel about the decision to allow Collegiate atheletes to accept brand sponsorships?
Will AI be used to further spread conspiracy theories that sound plausible enough?
Hello! I write about hacks and strategies for surviving the digital age and I'd love to speak to you! Would you be willing to be on my podcast? Thanks !
Yeah, this would be good to dig into, agreed! Jaron Lanier saying this week that he thinks the big danger is that well all be driven insane as a species by all the bullshit that AI will be spewing out, and the widespread mistrust it will cause seems like a properly valid concern. 25 years into the social media 'revolution' and we're all seeing what a shit-show of a world it's helped create. Mistrust of the information we're fed is already causing endless social turmoil around the world, what do we expect will happen in a world where we'll never truly know if anything really has had any human input or curation? Will there even be any practical way to fact-check anything without AI being involved in fact-checking itself? This is going to turn into a digital human centipede in no time at all. Do we think it could cause a big push back against trusting any kind of online news for a lot of people? Drive a bigger anti-tech mentality / movement / luddite-activism etc? Or as you say Tyler, will lazy acceptance win out? I suspect we'll fall somewhere closer to the lazy acceptance end the spectrum, and the implications of that are pretty terrifying. Or we'll all go out and touch grass again as a species, which would probably be a good thing? Would be interested to hear Max's take on any of this stuff. There's a lot of myopic takes on AI right now, but I'd like to see more smart people discussing what might happen further down the road tbh.