Anaïs

We've built an entire economy around selling people the feeling of control through bets, hacks, subscriptions, and optimization. But the model only works if people stay desperate. The worse things get, the better the pitch works. New essay on control and agency, financial nihilism, belief markets, the manosphere, and spectacle during war.

Capital allocates power. The world’s future lies in the hands of investors. This past week has served as a bleak reminder of what our future might look like: a future crippled by war, and fear around the misuse of AI. In a world where technology rules, capital decides which people shape our future. Therefore “who are we backing?” is the most important question of all. A question we should always be able to answer: “people I would trust my children with.” As these very people will go on to shape the world our children will grow up in - the world we will live in. I believe humanity is at a pivotal moment in its history. AI, humanity’s child, will carry our faults and our virtues - a clear reflection of human nature. As it will eventually gain the power for either mass destruction and control, or freedom and creation. The outcome will be decided by what we teach it to aim for. The future won’t be decided by any single event, speech, promise, or person. There won’t be one culprit to blame. It will be decided by the common accord of thousands of men and women’s investments. So to all investors: Invest deliberately. Invest with judgment. Invest for humanity.