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Sometimes I feel excitement, curiosity, or FOMO about "AI™!" this or "MCP agentic flight bookings!" that.
I face my emotions and remember this same tech takes simple instructions like “FaceTime Nick” and spits out “calling Karen Bass” or “Alexa, set a 10-minute timer” and pretending it never heard you.
The tech is useful. The tech is flawed. I'll be okay.
At the tip of the AI companies in California are countless antisocial people who find vulnerable relationships with other people deeply uncomfortable.
Anna Tong in Forbes (paywall) • Apple News+ posits what AI bros are buying from a cohort of hot, nerdy escorts in Silicon Valley.
There’s a quiet, consistent pattern with digital platforms: once a platform scales, owners optimize for rent extraction and make it more expensive no matter how “efficient” things started out.
AI tools are heading down the same path. To keep rent seekers honest, we need designs and use patterns that resist the “always more expensive” trajectory.
A few concepts of budget-friendly social infrastructure for AI could help keep our costs sustainably lower. Small prototypes could begin bringing them to life.