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thinking about thinking things & trying to make AI go well

https://marsh.blue / https://oaisi.org
like Facebook today is possibly much less useful for the individual user than it was when its market was solely college students, compared to ~everybody on earth

I liked this piece: open.substack.com/pub/nothingh...
The Tyranny of the Marginal User
why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time
open.substack.com
December 17, 2024 at 3:43 PM
a charitable interpretation of this line is something like 'the software that most people spend most of their time online using are significantly less useful than they used to be'. that seems quite plausible!

(the rest of the piece makes it harder to be charitable, tbf)
December 17, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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i asked Claude to write a Barthelme-esque short story with the aesthetic sensibilities of "The School", and it gave me this. i mean. i mean.
December 16, 2024 at 4:48 AM
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The git commits of technological history, viewed from 90,000 feet:
December 8, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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This one for Delhi is telling. Why air quality has not taken off as an issue in India yet is a bit baffling as it taking multiple years off people's life expectancy there. Air quality stripes plot for Delhi, India: airqualitystripes.info/stripes/?con...
November 29, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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The Cactus and the Weasel
www.ribbonfarm.com
November 19, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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This flow chart is also canonical

(sincere apologies but I do not think I can alt-text this)
November 11, 2024 at 7:45 AM