Michael Millerman

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"and there is a kind of quality that he has that's spellbinding, and I think it probably literally is a spell...it's sort of like you're in this dream land...and it's real, and anyone who's been around him can tell you it's real"

The goal of Personal AI: civilization where individual humans, augmented by AI, can do consequential work without being captured by extractive institutions. Freedom to write your prompt and own your data. This is the new battleground. 2034 won’t have to be like 1984.

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the industrial revolution was a bubble

"When one considers how depending we all are - especially such parasitic weaklings as artists, poets, writers, priests, philosophers - upon the hard one-track energies of the industrious producers and shrewd traders, it seems only fair to make our obeisance to enterprise, strength, and cunning, before we proceed to show the limitations of such things. If we refuse to make such an acknowledgement, if we indulge in unqualified abuse of the solid, sterling qualities upon which our very existence depends, there is a danger lest our protests, instead of representing a free, detached wisdom, should represent a weak, violent, impotent rage!" -John Cowper Powys

The university-to-career pipeline was the main legitimating function of higher ed for 50 years. If AI severs the entry-level rung, the whole credentialism edifice collapses faster than anyone planned for.

AI lab charters should be read less like corporate mission statements and more like constitutional documents. They define authority, human purpose, public reason, safety, responsibility, and the implied relation between technical elites and political order.

Understanding late Heidegger is functionally isomorphic to AI psychosis

Trump mentor Roy Cohn

universal basic compute will be the enfranchisement that creates the politics of the future: people will band together their timeslices of superintelligence to fight the great ideological battles of the future, the outlet for thymos

@doodlestein @yijiefeng @AScully789 I showed a non-technical friend Claude, got him set up, hooked up the tools, blew his mind. Now his whole team uses it and they can no longer imagine life without it. They're off and to the races.

@yijiefeng @AScully789 As long as those people are somewhat competent, it’s easily worth that much to these firms because it acts like an impetus for everyone to get on the same page and actually get the stuff installed and configured and permissioned, along with some basic training in using it.

I'm noticing a trend there's a growing number of "AI consulting" firms charging $20K+ to "deploy Claude" to legacy businesses (mid-sized law, accounting, PE firms) as "Anthropic enterprise partners" what this means: - they install claude code, cowork - run a few commands to connect to tools - give generic or misleading advice on a tech stack meanwhile, there's more interest than ever for firms with 0 technical staff to build SaaS in-house and there's an entire industry of advice givers seeking to profit off of this trend last week I was on a call with a PE firm (working with one of these agencies) and someone who had never written code was asking whether to run a RAG vector DB on a Mac mini to chunk internal docs can't make this up

"The noblest creation of the spirit is Loneliness - its most difficult task the adjustment of Loneliness to Love." -John Cowper Powys

Watching Eugene Onegin at Metropolitan Opera (at the cinema). Entering the opera phase of my life.

On this day in 1957: Plato Republic Seminar On existentialism: “The only existentialist, if one uses this term, who is a first-rate thinker is Heidegger.” - On Heidegger’s project: “Heidegger was compelled, because he was a great thinker, to give an analysis of existence. This analysis of existence is, however, an analysis of the essence of existence.”

@intothefuture45 @Athens_Stranger I haven't read it

.@Athens_Stranger @millerman Is this a worthwhile read? It sounds good, and I've seen it cited in quite a few more scholarly conservative books.

Revolt Against Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Post-Liberal Order, by Ted V. McAllister, is a free Kindle ebook on Amazon. amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0D…

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I’m glad I spent the first half of my life reading so many books.

Yup

@Bluebearmonkey Could be

@millerman I’m smarter than you

I love people who are smarter than me but I don't love people who think they're smarter than me