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korrents.com
Replies on Twitter are largely LLM-generated slopTheir words
I stopped replying almost entirely to my replies on my own Tweets because I expect all of them to just be LLM slop.
17 September
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But as workflows move more agentic - i.e. you want to use AI to take more actual actions - the advantage quickly shifts towards Meta.
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sometimes it's alright to have the ceo vibe slop his way to success.
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People who act and speak in public as right-wing extremists and are labeled as such, establish a claim to authenticity.
6 September
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korrents.com
Astra writes weird Python slop when one step removed from normal code, and its unit tests are horrific.Their words
when it's "one step removed" from normal code it writes weird Python slop. The unittests it writes are absolutely horrific.
5 September
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Real-time AI video generation can be used to create games and worlds generated on demand instead of pre-built.Their words
Right now it is infinite slop, but it can be used to make a video game / world that is generated on demand instead of pre-built.
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Compute platforms are converging toward one unified, globally distributed system limited only by physics.Their words
The future is one global and unified compute platform, with only known physics as the limiting factor
31 August
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It's true that Meta's rivals do largely employ the same cocktail of video formats, recommendation algorithms, and push notifications to continuously derail their users' attention.
26 August
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korrents.com
A human lifespan of about 90 to 100 years is right, and living forever is not something to want.Their words
I actually I do wanna die. I don't wanna do this forever. Like, I think the human li- lifespan of about 90 to 100 sounds about right. I'm embracing the finitude of life.
24 August
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Embracing an approach to religious renewal by encouraging fertility doesn’t seem like a strategy that will move the needle in a significant way.
Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?graphsaboutreligion.com
23 August
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korrents.com
A growing fraction of social media is AI slop influencers being replied to by bots — an echo of an echo of an echo.Their words
An increasing fraction of social media consists of slop influencers using AI to make posts and bots replying to them. An echo of an echo of an echo
21 August
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People being embarrassed or ashamed while still using the technology does not bother the authoritarian owners of those platforms in the least, as long as they’re profiting off of those ashamed users.
14 August
12 August
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Here's a baseline. Uh you cannot send anyone something you haven't read. And in fact, if it would take them longer to read it than it took you to make it, it's probably slop.
10 August
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Many startups are racing to create foundational world models, but I think the first ones to succeed will likely be the platforms in control of this data bank.
2 August
31 July
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Um, but actually the median business, uh, is doing better this year than a year ago. Um, and so and then if we kind of, um, stratify and look at the probability that any given business will reach some revenue threshold, a million dollars, five million dollars, 10 million dollars, whatever, um, those all seem to be getting better.
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That's hard by the way because we can detect that right now, but as these models get better, we might lose the ability to detect that.
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Humans will not win by trying to outrun the AIs. They are more powerful slop cannons than you are.
3 June
28 May
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"Slop" is fast becoming the central metaphor for the cultural output of the late twenty-twenties.
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Having a fulfilling Nothing practice requires an equal embrace of all present sensation.
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We shouldn't replace Github with one site at all; we need the strength and resilience that only comes with diversity
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From one piece Endgame for the Open Web 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Meanwhile, others like Spotify and Netflix leverage their dominant positions in the market to coerce creators to abandon open podcasts entirely, in favor of proprietary formats that require listeners to be on those platforms — locking in both creators and their audiences so they are stuck as they begin the enshittification process.
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korrents.com
The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading.Their words
As publishers see the danger from AI bots expand, they retreat to putting more and more content behind either password protection or payment walls or both, leaving the only publicly-accessible content to be AI-generated slop; open resources like research work, scientific analysis, and fair use of content all suffer as a result of people responding to the bad actors, since legitimate uses of open content are no longer possible.
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korrents.com
Bloated, slow software is caused by a lack of engineering care, not by the choice of technology stack.Their words
The real problem is a lack of care. And the slop; you can build it with any stack.
10 February
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building a third-party client to read and route messages is a gray area in their terms of service, and perhaps only partially supported in their API surfaces.
9 February
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I think that there will be lots of work for us cleaning up after the slop, but if you know what you're doing AI augmented development is going to get you some amazing results
7 January
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Usesrcmnd.app
ClaudeTheir words
I’m going to be speaking about Claude directly, because it’s the tool I use the most, but a lot of this should apply to other platforms as well.
9 December 2025
17 October 2025
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And I kind of feel like the industry it's it's um it's over it's it's making too big of a jump and it's trying to pretend like this is amazing and it's not. It's slop and I think they're not coming to terms with it and maybe they're trying to fund raise or something like that.
18 September 2025
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However, we are actually absolutely doing this. It's just the great works are kernels of operating systems, the browser, the um lots of the software platforms, the phones, the um the incredible advances in uh silicon lithography
1 September 2025
20 August 2025
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I think this slop-adjacent realm of dupe products and Instagrammable potions points to our increasingly desperate need to manipulate our own images, and an acceptance of the fact that we're kind of hybridized monsters ourselves in this post-A.I. human-machine moment
18 August 2025
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When new technologies come out, this pendulum swings from best of platform towards best of breed. And the reason for that is incumbents typically aren't that great at these new technologies.
13 August 2025
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One interesting point is that, in China, you ask the companies to innovate first, and then you regulate after, right? So, that has led to things like P2P platforms. It’s led to lots of kind of financial innovations, some of which has actually been very helpful and good, some of which had been disastrous, but the intention to regulate after the fact is to really not slow down or hinder the innovation. This is a very different approach from Europe. You regulate first, and then companies have to work around that.
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A Field Guide to Getting LostTheir words
A series of autobiographical essays exploring wandering, uncertainty, memory, desire, and place—embracing the unknown as a gateway to self-transcendence.
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True CallingTheir words
A nice personal + historical deep dive into finding your dharma by embracing both your gifts and limitations in service of something greater than yourself.
13 February 2025
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korrents.com
Treating errors generically is a mistake that leads to fragile software, poor observability and worse experiences.Their words
This is what leads to slop JS/TS software. Treating errors generically like this is a mistake. It leads to fragile software, poor telemetry/observability/debugging, and as a result worse experiences
6 January 2025
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I suspect that both Substack and OnlyFans may become a Girardian bubble. Everyone joins after hearing from the few people who succeed; the thousands who slink away after months of effort netted them a mere 17 subscribers usually do so quietly.
16 October 2024
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But what I do suggest is that there were very low platforms on the Giza Plateau that are much older and that when we look at the three Great Pyramids, we are looking at a renovation and a restoration and a enhancement of much older structures that had existed on the Giza Plateau for a much longer period before that.
7 October 2024
From one piece Fighting for our web 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The platforms have installed themselves in a position of power, but they are also vulnerable. They must do everything perfectly to maintain that position of power—not enrage their users too much, not push the regulators too far, not miss any of those competitors who are seeking to take a portion of that power.
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Websites outside of these handful of social networks are harder and harder to even find, and partially because of that, they have a harder and harder time sustaining themselves.
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But the platforms do not exist without the people, and there are a lot more of us than there are of them.
27 September 2024
From one piece POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think federation is the long-term solution to these problems. Eventually, I dream we will be able to seamlessly interact with people across platforms.
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Next to proper ownership of your own work, my favorite thing about POSSE is that it massively expands what you can publish, far beyond the limitations imposed by most social media (and especially microblogging) platforms that try to enforce some uniformity in post style, length, and appearance.
20 September 2024
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Usesrcmnd.app
ChatGPTTheir words
This includes platforms like ChatGPT and Claude. These are my go-to for brainstorming, writing, problem-solving, and even some coding tasks.
26 August 2024
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The list of “complicity” in various bad things worries me because every platform has some element of that kind of content going on, in part because it’s impossible to stop entirely.
18 February 2024
From one piece The State of the Culture, 2024 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
The executives building addictive platforms know what the harm is and build them anyway.Their words
The tech CEOs know this is harmful, but they do it anyway.
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They don’t want to find the next Michelangelo or Mozart. They want to create a world of junkies—because they will be the dealers.
1 May 2023
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I want to see more tools and fewer operated machines - we should be embracing our humanity instead of blindly improving efficiency. And that involves using our new AI technology in more deft ways than generating more content for humans to evaluate. I believe the real game changers are going to have very little to do with plain content generation.
21 January 2023
From one piece Tiktok's enshittification 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And policymakers should focus on freedom of exit – the right to leave a sinking platform while continuing to stay connected to the communities that you left behind, enjoying the media and apps you bought, and preserving the data you created
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Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves.
22 November 2022
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the real goal was to make their users more legible, primarily for advertising purposes, but also to law enforcement and other authorities.
7 January 2022
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korrents.com
web3 is not on a path away from centralised platforms, and its privacy story is already below the internet’s low bar.Their words
I don’t think it’s on a trajectory to deliver us from centralized platforms, I don’t think it will fundamentally change our relationship to technology, and I think the privacy story is already below par for the internet (which is a pretty low bar!), but I also understand why nerds like me are excited to build for it.
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