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Yesterday's AIs ate the Internet and became a patchwork mediocrity.
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Writing for the week: two on the blog, one in the newsletter. Themes: Dark forests, mediocrity, hot take on the week’s developments in AI
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I call it the force that no one controls but everyone obeys that tends to drag organizations down into mediocrity to the point that we lose control of them. Now, sometimes we lose control of them because we get fired.
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Good taste: taste is the ability to distinguish excellence from mediocrity. The hand can never consistently produce better than the eye can discern.
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because copying competition is like the fastest way to mediocrity because you'll never be a leader if you copied somebody else.
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