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The seemingly earnest popularity of these videos, especially among younger users, is part of an untethering of video content from coherent meaning that seems to be happening on short-form video apps. It feels like the longer people make videos for an algorithm the more the videos start to degrade into just random visual stimuli, which is unnerving, but also kind of interesting.
The Doomscrolling Is the Point
Garbage Day
Also let that be the most important lesson to anyone who says that the AI companies, or OpenAI in particular, can be counted on to act responsibly, or to keep their promises, or that we can count on their corporate structures, or that we can rely on anything such that we don’t need laws and regulations to keep them in check.
AI #83: The Mask Comes Off
TheZvi
We could have:
1. Countless local networks, many overlapping with each other.
2. A larger network of networks to allow for cross-network collaboration.
This *is* a design pattern we have seen work well in the past with email and Matrix. These platforms often function as networks of networks, allowing communities within them to have control over their own smaller networks but still allowing users on different providers to interact with each other seamlessly.
Agentic Computing
jzhao.xyz
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