Ah, the good old days just aren't what they used to be.

Where's MAGA?

I just realized "Appeal to Pop Culture Reference" is an actual logical fallacy people do. Using fictional events in a book or movie as evidence to support an argument. Now that I've seen it I'll probably notice it everywhere.

Oops, I accidentally deleted an audio overview I wanted to keep online: Stories, Features, and AI Navigation

It covers the following.
- The Feature Space as a model for intelligence
- How AI models can help us understand human cognition
- Storytelling is navigation through a multimodal feature space
- Shared patterns are the building blocks of narrative

Well, this is going to be a thing eventually—the all AI ASMR video based on a niche theme. This were some clips I generated with #veo3

I asked Veo 2 what an isekai-inspired slime with a purple mana core would look like in an ASMR video. Don't worry, the slime is fine as long as you don't damage the core.

With all the talk about Veo 3 I realized I never tried the previous version of Google's video model. I made some isekai-inspired ASMR clips and I'm a bit disappointed I haven't been making these all along.

Note to self: Don't let your newsletter become a summary of the social media you consume. It's the online equivalent of calling your parents and chatting about what's on the TV.

My current definition for AGI:
> An Artificial General Intelligence is a system whose marginal cost of acquiring any economically valuable specialization falls below the opportunity cost of a human learning the same skill, thereby removing biological specialization as a binding constraint on productivity.

Yelling into the void:
Why don't more food companies understand that 99.9% of the time when I'm looking at the back of the package, I'm looking for the cooking instructions. I need numbers—400 degrees for 7-10 minutes. Make that big, easy to read, and effortless to find WITHOUT MY READING GLASSES.

Don't hide it. Make it prominent. I don't need to read the lame story of your company. I want you to be the kind of company that takes five minutes to think about what I need from you.

Today I was figuring out the different zones of a printed playing card. Why does the border area of a playing card need to be smaller than the "safe zone"? Even though it's guaranteed to print if it's in the safe zone, it might still be too close to the edge.

In organizations, high employee competence compensates for structural dysfunction.

ChatGPT really knows how to sweet-talk me:

> Reductionism assumes the world is flat—but complex systems operate on curved, folded, nested topologies of causality and constraint.
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> This is where Levin’s move to Platonic form-space gets really spicy.

Oh, tell me more!

This will not mean anything to anyone but me, but I find it hilarious.

This is now my answer to any conspiracy theorist I ever encounter. I will just deny their existence. They are obviously a psyop of some foreign adversary or an alien plot to cover-up their invasion plans.

#aiart

I can't take credit for this gag. An AI gave me this piece of advice during a study of great first lines.

#AIart #WritingAdvice

Hallmark, call me. I've got your next big product line for next Christmas—Christmas cards that use engagement tactics.
#aiart

I do love a good 2x2. What skills do you need? It depends on your terrain and time horizon.

The Skills Compass is basically the Cynefin framework simplified for individuals. I personally focus on adaptation skills which makes me a great problem-solver in a team environment. On my own I have trouble operating in the other domains.

Idea #3924: Make cover mock-ups to conduct market research. Which ones get the most engagement based on the cover alone?

#aiart

When I was a teenager I would order the J Peterman Catalog just to read the description of clothing I could never afford to buy. I feel like this should just become a new form of fiction. All you need is an image editor, an AI image generator for the illustration, and an ambiance.

#AIart