🍊 Vitamin C for the Psyche (Experimental History)
Scurvy is a terrible affliction brought on by a lack of vitamin C. People suffering from the disease do not know to ask for orange juice. They wither and die. Loneliness is a social form of scurvy, where your social thermostats get out of whack. The only cure is to have real face time with other humans.
🎭 The Social Myth of Wishful Thinking (Conspicuous Cognition)
People don’t believe things to protect their fragile psyches. People believe things to adapt socially. Beliefs are adopted to fit in.
🔒 A Normalized View of AI Risks (AI as Normal Technology)
A fair and balanced look at the recent loss of control incidents. Yes, the labs should have done a better job controlling their agents. No, we are not looking at a coordinated agent swarm taking down the internet. The frontier is jagged.
🏃Building prod not God (AI Changes Everything)
The hottest thing in AI this week is Jev. The new specialized model by TypeSafe AI is focused on making fast and cheap decisions. Unlike the LLMs you know and love, it gives you structured answers only, no flowery language. And it does this quickly and very, very inexpensively.
🐌 Superpersistent AI is Scary Good (Silver Bulletin)
If you had to circle a big difference between AI tools today and AI tools just a few months ago it is how persistent they are. This superpersistence gives AI a superpower. Perhaps too much of a superpower, like enough to release an agent swarm upon Hugging Face and others.
💳 Who Pays for the Lounge? (Gad’s Newsletter)
Southwest has grown lounges because they too are a credit card company that flies planes.
🏠 Will GLP-1s Change Home Design (Carbon Upfront!)
Kitchens have been the center of home design. That will change now that we are eating less.
📺 Vertical Dramas (okay zoomer)
Americans are spending more time watching vertical microdramas on their phones than traditional streaming services. The dopamine hits come hard and fast and it might be better than TV.
🍳 Making Cheap Food Taste Expensive (American Gravy)
Some tried and true tricks to make your dishes taste and feel much better.
☕ A Field Guide to the True American Diner (The Awl)
You know one when you are in one. Enjoy the free refills.
The Look
Jeff Bezos isn’t buying a stake in Liverpool for the operating profit. Via How They Make Money.
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