Chris Williamson

unmoored untethered to my existing perspective of reality I'm never going to have a day that's that good again it's like having never done cocaine and then deciding one day to complete like a Charlie Sheen sized dose of it

And you go, well, I'm not conditioned.

I wasn't right.

I didn't build up my tolerance for this.

And I don't have the story and the narrative.

And that's what we live in.

Humans live in these narratives.

But the stupid thing is we don't know what technology we have now

that had it have not been there, we would have preferred our lives in the past.

There was a, I think the typewriter came in partway through Nietzsche's life and his writing changed when the typewriter came along.

because previously he was writing by hand yeah then after that his sentences got shorter his writing style changed and i wonder how many people when the typewriter came along said well and without the quill it's going to change all of these things now that's not to say that some technologies can't unlock creativity and unlock your access to difficulty there's like this unnecessary challenge but it certainly feels to me like if there's a bell curve of where the optimal point is or the area under the cup

We are way overshooting it now that a single prompt can basically spit out a passable piece of work.

All that being said, I do think that the advent of AI opens up for everybody.

AI basically regresses you back to the mean, but that's what it is.

It's optimizing for the mean.

So if you're worse than, if you're in the bottom 50% of anything,

AI will make you better.

It's a great deal.

If you're in the top 50% of anything, AI makes you worse.

And if you're trying to do anything, you shouldn't be doing it if you're in the bottom 50%.