Kith CEO @RonnieFieg says social media algorithms have flattened taste: “Everyone now wants the same thing. You used to be forced to have your own opinion.” His influence came from riding across Queens, watching completely different cultures get on the train, and walking into stores before the internet had already told everyone what to like. “Every other stop would be a different culture hopping on the train.” “What I got to see became my world. That was my influence. I got to see so many different styles, people dressed in so many different ways, and that’s when the sense of individuality was at an all-time high.” “Before you were influenced by your algorithm, which now, a lot of people want the same things because it’s based off what they see.” “Back then, when you went shopping, you were forced to have an opinion because you wouldn’t have seen everything.” “Today, people will walk into a store and know about all the products before they walk in. They’ve already seen someone wearing it, a photo of it, a lookbook of it, a campaign of it.” “Back then you were just forced to have your own opinion.”

i'll say it: i've been doing "agentic coding" for like 3 years since the middle of 2023. it has made it really difficult to collaborate. i feel like i work in a different language to my peers and 99% of my collaboration is just semantics.

I underestimated Zuck's game. It's a hearing aid. You can't tell me I can't wear my Meta Glasses anymore or you'll be going against the ADA.

jesus fucking christ

ok but seriously what downstream dependency can actually take down everything all at once? DNS?

looks like Codex limits may have been quietly nerfed. back in June, SemiAnalysis tested the ChatGPT plans and estimated their max API-equivalent usage at roughly: $20 Plus → ~$700/month $100 Pro 5x → ~$3,500/month $200 Pro 20x → ~$14,000/month now a Plus user tracking with NerfTrack says their weekly limit dropped from around $160 → $80, basically a 50% cut. one Pro 5x user also shared numbers showing $674 → ~$157/week, which is around a 77% drop. a lot of people have been noticing their Codex quota disappearing much faster lately too. hopefully this is just a bug, right @thsottiaux ? right??😭

The argument that “AI structurally centralizes power” because it’s currently compute hungry ignores 125 years of super exponential growth in compute price-performance. Improvement in algorithms and continued hardware efficiency gains means there is no reason to assume AGI-level capabilities will always require a data center to run. Scaling laws are not laws of physics. They’re simply empirical relationships observed for particular architectures, objectives, datasets etc. Change any one of those factors and you get a different scaling curve. If the brain is any guide, true AGI will likely be very efficient. In fact, current scaling laws might a bug and not a feature. It shows how inefficiency of the ML algorithms we discovered so far.