The OnlyFans Economy of American AI
Key takeaways
- The Internet hums with its usual promise — you will find your people, your myth, your wonder, and maybe your transformation.
- Because I am a Sci-Fi nerd, I like to engage in bits of speculative writing every now and then.
- I was reading Ted Chiang’s latest Atlantic piece this morning, and unsurprisingly, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The Internet hums with its usual promise — you will find your people, your myth, your wonder, and maybe your transformation. There is no class consciousness. God is in heaven and all is right with the world.” — American Diner Gothic
Because I am a Sci-Fi nerd, I like to engage in bits of speculative writing every now and then. I like to give contour to ideas because I stand by Hugo’s words that “no army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.” And yet, I am first and foremost forged in the fires of science, and I have a high regard for evidence. I am also an engineer, which means I have a healthy respect for the practical. All this made me a fine skeptic, and by extension, a merciless cynic when having to deal with bullshit. This is a ruthless piece. In it, I will not care about feelings — quite on the contrary, I will expose the hypocrisy wherever I see it.
I was reading Ted Chiang’s latest Atlantic piece this morning, and unsurprisingly, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Chiang has an almost uncanny ability to write about mainstream ideas with clinical articulateness — I do not know why, but I perceive him as a therapist of sorts. Two days ago, I read this arrangement of words that try very hard to boost that pre-IPO valuation, disguised as humility while concealing hubris’ fangs.