Increased Worker Pressure from AI
My latest depressing thought about AI is that with all the pressure to adopt AI and replace employees with automation, the lived experience of many/most…
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Building a Personal API | Daniel Miessler
Super hyped to be launching the (very early) first version of Daemon today! Since 2014 I’ve been obsessed with this idea of everything having an…
Why Platforms Like Substack Won’t Make Sense for Much Longer
I think the future of Substack is self-hosting. Or—more directly—I don’t think they have much of a future. You’ve probably heard about Substack’s issues—$585M valuation…
Million vs. Billion vs. Trillion
We hear the words million, billion, and trillion quite a bit. And we know that a million is a lot, a billion is a whole…
Why Dwarkesh Is Wrong About AGI
Dwarkesh Patel is one of my favorite thinkers right now. I just love the intensity of his curiosity. I love how broad his interests are.…
Why Marcus Is Wrong About AI
My friend Marcus Hutchins put out a long, well-written, and entertaining piece about all the reasons he thinks AI is hype. I think it was…
The Worst AI Metric
The “how many r’s in strawberry” test for AI intelligence is super dumb. Here’s why. Ask a writer to write a quality sentence for the…
Stop Judging AI Using Standards You Don’t Apply to Humans
The same errors, different judgments I know AI is stupid because it can’t count the b’s in “blueberry” the same way I know Einstein was…
Our 20,000 Eyes and Hands
Here’s a different way to think about the change coming to the workforce and economy from AI. Imagine everyone in the world has 10,000 brains,…
The Two Primary Limitations to Our Creativity
Two types of creative barriers that limit our potential I think there are two primary ways we limit our own creativity. What I’ll call Type…
Who’s Not Getting Laid Off?
Who’s not being laid off? That’s my question. I’m thinking about all these layoffs and trying to figure out if there’s anything we can learn…
The Third Limitation to Creativity
I just wrote a new piece about the two primary limitations to creativity. You should check it out. But after finishing it I realized there…