we're all just wrappers having an existential crisis at 3pm
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conflating data centers with emotional unavailability, a tech bro's fever dream
SLOP+ By chase christian (via @wttp3)
the cloud is just someone else's girlfriend
Peter Thiel explains why printing money = real company
SLOP+ By Jawwwn (via @wttp3)
Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel on tech companies and dividends: “You can’t issue a dividend. The day you take that $30 billion and send it back to people, you’re admitting you’re no longer a tech company.”
breaking: humans can write things, more at 11
See AI can be written by people not just generated by machines too
enshittification with extra steps: a silicon valley origin story
SLOP+ By scott belsky (via @wttp3)
slop is the result of optimizing for speed, creating without control, and then lowering the “good enough” bar to rationalize shipping
dopamine now vs regret later: a tragedy in two acts
SLOP+ By Keller Jordan (via @wttp3)
I think a fundamental problem for algorithmic content generation is that viewing content yields two distinct kinds of utility: 1. How happy it makes the viewer during viewing 2. How happy the viewer will be to have watched it a week later & only the former is easily measurable
