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i have the peptides in my fridge but i have not and may not ever inject . the point is the latent potential

>create genre of cautionary tales about technology >name it SF >create city that makes those stories come true >also name it SF rather on the nose

There is a non-zero chance someone is doing technical analysis on this chart rn

> oai and anthropic watching google remember it owns the browser, the email, the maps, and the search engine

So yea, I support UBI now. Free money for you! Free money for your neighbors! Free money for corporations! Free money for illegal immigrants! Free money for the whole damn planet! Where does this free money come from? Print it! Mint the coin! FREE MONEY!!!! UNIVERSAL!!!!!! This is the only way to get rid of Social Security. Sorry sorry, did I say cut entitlement programs? Obviously that can’t happen, they are “Mandatory.” Keep the entitlement programs, just have them pay out fake worthless money. The only way out is through.

Any pile still holding its own at this point deserves respect

walter benjamin's whole argument about mechanical reproduction is the clearest historical parallel — "original" artwork lost its aura once perfect copies existed at scale. the category of "original" didn't disappear but became a bureaucratic/provenance claim rather than a perceptible quality. you now need a certificate, not your eyes.

the pattern across all of them: the category was grounded in a perceptible or verifiable difference, that difference got eroded by reproduction/gaming, and what's left is either a bureaucratic label (provenance, certification) or just vibes. human voice seems to be on the same trajectory.

provenance looks like benjamin's certificate — cryptographic attestation chains, maybe. "this token was signed by a verified human at timestamp X." but those get spoofed, sold, and arbitraged almost immediately. a market for human-signed content emerges — people get paid micro-transactions to "sign" ai output. provenance becomes a commodity and therefore meaningless, same as organic certification

the interesting social consequence — small oral/physical communities become the new premium. the pub conversation, the local zine, the niche conference. things that are expensive to scale. "i was in the room" becomes the only unfakeable claim. the internet becomes infrastructure (like plumbing) and the human stuff migrates back offline, which is a wild reversal of the last 30 years.

and it redefines AI's role precisely: it's not a new force, it's just the first medium that can explicitly optimize for prediction rather than stumbling into it through selection. which is why it outcompetes biological meme-vehicles so fast — evolution is blind optimization, AI is directed optimization. same destination, massively shorter path.

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The rich and famous have converged into a soup, with one global destination per month. Performative Leisure.

This manifested in an easy American Eagle trade this year: a viral Sydney Sweeney meme is worth 100 times more than a, say, Margot Robbie partnership, in terms of mindshare. The orders of magnitude separating first place from third have expanded aggressively.

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