Good point. I think we should make fun of that and look at least mildly disapprovingly…

But I think even if you say that the AI writes the newsletter, you‘ve got to take responsibility for it...

the most important number and why we won't get it

I ask - why don't we have mental capacity measures for managers like we know the physical capacity of manual workers? backofmind.substack.com/p/the-most-i...

Yes it is thematically appropriate to mute the word "antimemetics"

If only there was an appropriate mindset for this.

Most of the problems that the pessimists point to are fixable. There are probably a few that are fundamental, but might be fixed by better design and management.

At the same time, the actually transformative examples are few and fairly nuanced. I haven’t seen it scale past a dozen people yet.

I think it is possible, and it has definitely happened in a few places. But right now it usually slop and poorly thought through, haphazard processes.

Tell me again what solutions Stafford Beer would have suggested for the current cybernetic info-flow nightmare we are in the middle of? (Looking at @dsquareddigest.bsky.social
...)

A fascinating example of how disastrously wrong the establishment can be:
www.nytimes.com/1963/09/28/a...

human in the loop (interactive mode) vs human on the loop (manager mode) vs human out of the loop (escaping blame and avoiding responsibility for your LLM's actions mode)

Did I read Declare because of you? I have been trying to figure out how it ended up in my library.

Kind of like asking Michael Jordan for advice on succeeding at basketball!

AI gives us a chance to run a massive study to figure out which signals:
- have quality because they have value vs.
- have quality because they just seem scarce!

This is really very good and reminds me yet again of how we need to start pulling together an Actual Political Economy of AI.

In my day to day work, there is a race between machine-generated vs voice-generated text. I hope voice typing wins!

remember that the most important VC is version control!

That’s a good point! I’m trying to imagine a niche social media platform that’s run by what used to be called mainstream media in which there are good reasons why individuals should be subscribers to media properties.

What media companies you've unsubscribed from is the real signal.

I would like a social network in which you had to show what media companies you subscribed to (and for how long).

What folks say is almost as interesting as what they don’t say

This is literally a vampire economy.

That’s a good point. Though the right has multiple social networks and I don’t understand why old media hasn’t tried to create something for themselves to promote their work. Doesn’t it seem like an obvious project?

Now that Twitter is for the techno-right, Bluesky for progressives, and Threads for wannabe Instagram influencers, what social media platform is for old fashioned media?

An evergreen quote.

one problem with game theory is that it assumes that your side is actually not stupid

Deception, metadeception and paradeception.

tell me the story about pandora’s box again?

I did a chat with Tom last week. I might have been a little too excited but you’ll get a sense of why Princeton students are lucky to have him and why you should read it immediately rather than the next hot take...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmwY...

Here’s the case for reading Tom Griffith’s new book The Laws of Thought:
- it’s a great guide on cog sci + AI from someone in the field
- and a meditation for ambitious people on how great ideas start, get ignored, merged, and found again
- plus you'll see how often visionaries are right and wrong

Opinion | Seven Pages of a Sealed Watergate File Sat Undiscovered. Until Now.

My favorite conspiracy theories are the ones that I live long enough to find out were actually true! Revealed after 50 years, Nixon was being spied on by chairman of the Joint Chiefs. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...