Tens of thousands of years: humans don't have careers
The last 50 or so years: humans have careers
Modern people: "What will humanity do if we no longer have careers???"
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Saw a lady at the coffee shop and she was being careful to set her cup down quietly. Hovering the cup over the saucer then setting it down with a little click, like she was docking a lunar module.
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Try Google image searching "direct mail flyer". It's hard to find real examples. Hundreds of millions of these were printed every year for the last hundred years and 99.9% of them don't exist on the internet.
Something ephemeral and worthless like a junk mail flyer, read by hundreds of thousands of people then discarded
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The apocalypse hits and the billionaire decamps to his bunker with his mercenaries. There's an awkward silence: the mercenaries look at their guns, at their sworn blood brothers, at the bunker's limited supplies, then at the annoying unarmed billionaire. The silence stretches...
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Sometimes the "courageous leap, trailing sparks" is the wrong thing for you and the "that's all there is to it...?" is the right thing for you
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Example of how an AI can save you money. Fulfill curiosity for free. This would work for Starbucks seasonals too.
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I could never be a content creator because I have no clue what interests people. On a scale of 1 to 10 for mass audience theory of mind I'm like a 2.
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You need to be dismissmaxxing. I read an article for 3 seconds and already know if it's bullshit. Be more judgemental and shallow.
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In general it's better to broadcast a vibe rather than communicate it. If you broadcast it the same for everyone, regardless of how people take it, then it can be ethical. But if you tweak your vibe moment to moment depending on how listeners react, then it can be really creepy.
you are ceaselessly communicating a vibe
it can be shaped and (if you have a lot of control over it) have aspects of it turned on & off, like the marilyn monroe story below
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We need more words. Complex emotion words, like for when Dwarkesh interviews Robert Moses, his white whale, his lifelong dream, and the interview is just ok.
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