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slop realism
We are in a culture of optimization, which means we are in a culture of slop.
The core paradox: as soon as something is identified as “good,” it becomes optimizable. As soon as something is optimizable, it is scaled and mass-produced. Even...
slop ecology
When a heroin addict unknowingly overdoses on fentanyl, who do you blame?
One school of thought blames the user. They made an irresponsible choice, and this was the consequence of their action—but they may not have had full control over th...
downgrade your priors
I’ll never forget that fourth Knicks game. I was sitting in a bar with a group of quantitative finance traders, and the mood was suboptimal. With less than ten minutes on the clock, the Spurs were 29 points ahead.
A few of us were jokingly...
our reality is glitching
I don’t usually notice that I’m wearing glasses. I don’t usually think about how I scroll on TikTok. Then my lens smudges, my screen buffers, and my world is interrupted.
Humans have an uncanny way of dissolving into their tools. When you...
field notes from a phone-free future
There is a countercultural revolution spreading across the United States. It has many faces that have been widely documented but poorly understood. It is “high agency,” but not in the Silicon Valley sense, because it is also highly techno-p...
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