i think it’s important to status-min. people should be surprised at how competent you are red rising speaks of this “if you’re a fox, play the hare. if you’re the hare, play the fox”

people need to status max so much more high status people saying "chasing status is bad" is such an effective way of keeping everyone below them literally the only reason why you care about a person you have not met is because they've done something publicly approved rant:

Talking to your Mutuals now earns Love. When a Mutual really loves something you say, she hearts it. Love puts you on her weekly leaderboard. Top fans open packs: exclusive Juniper collectibles, crossovers with other universes, and sometimes a real gift card.

Rant that no one asked for: My general take about consumer AI is that 99% of the things we've seen so far are super far-removed from reality Most people feel like they don't have money to spend right now, so the use-cases around agents booking flights or trips or booking reservations or shopping just don't appeal to the average American consumer I would argue that things that consumers purchase or "do" frequently enough (like ordering on Amazon, or calling Ubers, etc.) were obvious/annoying enough/frequent enough use-cases where we built amazing software UI/UX over the last decade that's been optimized to near ultimate efficiency that adding AI or agents on top would actually be making it *less* efficient. Like really *worth-it* use cases are generally "one-clickable" by great consumer products/platforms already There's a lot of magical moments/wow factors/sci-fi things with agents that come from super annoying workflows (like booking flights or wrangling personal errand stuff in gmail or etc.) but are just not frequent enough for the average person. They're actually the long-tail. For example, 20% of the world's population has flown on an airplane at least once in their lifetime, meaning 80% of people globally have never set foot on a plane. Only 11%-15% of the global population flies in any given year! This is not me saying that consumer AI is dumb, I'm actually extremely excited and optimistic, but it kind of goes back to things we've always known about consumer, which is: 1. Save/make consumers money 2. Make consumers entertained or famous (And, of course, vices) Even like, regardless of your views on prediction markets/sports betting, I think you have to understand that comes from a place of the average person feeling like they 1) don't have enough so 2) they want to do what they can to jump the socioeconomic rungs Anyway, there's an extremely *wide* space of opportunity and I'm very excited to see the absolutely insane new AI/innovative stuff that builders come up with, but also I really want to see things that aren't just dressed up versions of 2010s prosumer/productivity software (and the problems that came with it) P.S. The 90/10/1 rule still applies to consumer: most consumers want to *consume* (and lurk) rather than create!

i've got so much to tell u i needed three screens first hello • october 23 • 00:00 my first ever song. FOUR DAYS 🫠 are u staying up with me?

Many predators that hunt fail to catch prey more than they succeed. The golden eagle fails up to 80% of the time. But it does not stop. It cannot stop. It has to keep trying and it eventually it succeeds. It does not give up. Because to give up is to die.

We said we'd open-source the harness that brings our characters to life. It's out. Give a character a voice, a face and a body, and put it anywhere. Real-time 3D on @kaigen3d. Built with @gouveags at @mutuals_inc github.com/mutuals-inc/chara…

workwise, people waste too much time "catching up" to keep the relationship warm "just in case." people come and go, converge and diverge. no need to get in the way of nature. long term relationships in work are very give and take. meeting for implied substance once a year irl is better than catching up and small talking once a month in most cases.

this week I shared a comparison between Kaigen and Three.js for @mattshumer_ Claude of Duty. thing is: *I hadn't optimized it yet* now I did, and Kaigen is now up to ~9x faster than Three.js on this project on my macbook M4.

Spoke with a 70 year old skeptical about AI and I asked him why: massive $$ investments with unclear returns, water usage (I debunked that one in realtime with data), huge energy needs, risks of rogue agents hacking, and massive labor shifts. Then I asked him about the best arguments he’d heard in favor of more AI investment: “hmm… maybe curing cancer?” We’ve got a lot to do. We’re not talking about all the ways this is going to improve quality of life for all humanity. And no one outside our bubble sees the spectacular opportunity ahead

Apparently this is where the AI era started 😅 If I had beaten that bot in 2017, maybe the world would be a very different place now I had a chance to stop AI, but …

my first collab drops in a couple weeks and im trying so hard to act normal about who it's with its gonna blow your minds