Nick Paskhover

The rise of Google AI Mode (plus agents) will be a big economic shift for the web—but it's also a huge psychological shift in our relationship to other people on the web. Right now, AI summaries of queries do not send our attention outward to links but rather answer our questions directly by summarizing the material they can consume faster than the user. This will change the economics of the internet because the machine has gone from hunting and gathering (ranking and displaying links to which they send traffic) to serving final meals (summarizing the results). We're seeing AI Mode affect Alphabet earnings, Reddit revenues, and search traffic for publishers. That's already a big story. But I'm also watching now information consumers are being moved up the hierarchy of search: - Bottom rung: Find links in response to search - Next rung up: Generic summary of links (AI) - Next: Encourage me to talk to the AI about the results rather than click any of the below links, so that the AI summary isn't generic but rather tailored to the user who did the search (personalized advanced AI) - Next: Anticipate the next search/prompt and give me the information or product I need before I know I need it (Muse, Instinct, advanced agents) With each rung, the human-to-human interaction of the web (eg, me reading an article by a person) is being intermediated and then finally replaced by a machine that anticipates what I wanted from that human-to-human interaction and serves it up to me, possibly even before I knew that I wanted it.

nolan as the male taylor swift is funny - genius artist who guards the last dying embers of the monoculture - a popular mainstream hit maker whose work is also critically acclaimed and wins big awards - ludicrously productive and famously known to take care and pleasure in actually writing their own work and they're opposites in ways that are kind of gendered, too, in that the thing that makes them special is distinct. taylor swift's best music is memoiristic and about the emotional inner life of non-married women whereas christopher nolan's stuff is almost entirely unromantic, my favorite protagonists of his are dads, the characters don't really talk about their feelings unless they're telling you the theme of the movie (oppenheimer: let's have sex while i foreshadow the trinity test with this shiva quote in spontaneously translated sanskrit), and he excels at macro-level narrative spectacle rather than emotional interpersonal dialogue

this interview is the skeleton key to his genius, i think, bc nolan's work is kind of like, what if a filmmaker had just two north stars: jorges luis borges short stories and fast and the furious films