Dwarkesh

Now we can discuss it.

Now it's part of the conversation.

I do think courage has to be some part of the explanation just because there are so many people who are good at using these kind of hidden away blogging things that never get anywhere.

Although it can't be that much of the explanation because I feel like now all of those people have gotten sub stacks and some of those sub stacks went somewhere but most of them didn't.

Yeah, so on the car ride here, Daniel and I were talking about, like, AI is now the thing everyone is interested in.

Is there time horizon?

Where did this come from?

Like, five years ago, you would not have thought, oh, time horizon.

AIs will be able to do a bunch of things that last one minute, but not that last two hours.

Like, is there a human equivalent to time horizon?

And we couldn't figure it out.

But it almost seems like there are a lot of people who have the time horizon to write a really, really good comment that gets to the heart of the issue or a really, really good Tumblr post, which is like three paragraphs, but somehow can't make it hang together for a whole blog post.

And I'm the same way.

I can easily write a blog post, like a normal length ACX blog post.

But if you ask me to write like a novella or something that's four times the length of the average ACX blog post, then it's this giant mess of re-re-re-re outline that just gets redone and redone.

And maybe eventually I make it work.

I did somehow publish Unsong, but it's a much less natural way.

Task.

So maybe one of the skills that goes into blogging is this.

I mean, no, because people write books and they write journal articles and they write works in progress article all the time.