oh buddy. strap-in. there's some genuinely good stuff in there but also A LOT of french boomer po-mo bullshit. the dynamic you were describing here made me think "this sounds like the material foundation of a pure, global simulacrum"

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I want to push on this. If something can be formally described, then it can be replicated, and if it can be replicated it can be in principle automated … the question is cost and capability , and both have changed wildly

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I'd bet that guy does not think of the term "life changing" as implying measurable, lasting changes in income. I suspect for most people that phrase is just kind of a vibe they would claim to feel from even fleeting windfalls.

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The parents send a warlock to school and the kid comes home a witch. Can you imagine?

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The revolution in data gathering and processing is, genuinely, a huge threat to humanistic approaches to social understanding. One you learn how much and how quickly machines can get from visual information (for instance) you realize just how far we can push explicit information into ex-tacit realms

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