Summary: We possess the philosopher’s stone in the form of AI (transmuting cheap sand into expensive thought), tutoring that used to be limited to emperors (also AI), and tools that transcend biological limits (AI again).
Beat me to it. Andreesen is a freaking Bond villain. He’s one of the biggest threats to humanity and democracy. I was almost willing to tolerate all the AI bullshit on this Substack given your reputation, but this? I’m out.
It's always fascinating when men who know nothing about sequential art or the comics industry use AI to make comics because they are always complete failures in the formal/compositional sense as well as being badly drawn with incomplete ideas.
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud is a good book to read before embarrassing yourself by pretending you know someone else's art form.
This is so cringe. Shockingly, Jakob can't see the usability issue with this new technology or the flaw in Andreessen's argument - AI introduces the paradox of plenty. So rather than giving the child agency to "move the world", you devalue learning, skills and thought, because it is outsourced and plentiful.
That child does not have agency, what he really has is a cognitive crutch that inhibits original thought and memory.
If Jakob was correct, students would be able to maintain their performance once access to AI was restricted. In reality, when students no longer have access to AI, their scores plummet.
AH funds Flock, the AI-enabled ALPRs and security cameras that create a vast warrantless surveillance state.
Along with buddies at Palantir, the company currently inserting itself into DHS and creating apps out of vast troves of your personal government data now paired with commercial datasets to more efficiently rid the US of brown people, AH represents the most terrifying vision of our future I can fathom.
Thiel, Andreesen, Karp and Musk espouse a techno-optimist belief that the leaders of tech deserve supremacy and absolute freedom to do whatever they deem necessary to advance technology, and that there must be a great apocalyptic event to cleanse the world of liberal ideas like social responsibility and ethics in technology.
a belief that anything technology can do is permissible, and any cost to humans today is worth it for the benefits to the superior humans of tomorrow.
When I hear them speak, or I hear things like “time to build” I imagine this is what was said of the railroads and shower tech needed in Germany to implement their final solutions. The “Palantirization of Everything” = “we’re like Nazis, but for X!”
What is efficiency if used on behalf of a death cult
My favorite article of yours so far, Jakob—it resonated with me on many levels. The concept of the Bloom Two Sigma Effect is fascinating.
My wife is an early childhood educator and preschool owner who developed her own curriculum influenced by mindfulness and Montessori methods that encourage agency. We raised all our children this way, and watching them enter this new era has been humbling. They are inspired and eager to build, yet grounded and self-aware.
I’ve recently adjusted my ChatGPT and Copilot settings to prioritize teaching, and I’ve absolutely improved—both professionally and personally—through AI tutoring.
I laughed out loud at the image of the UX, Product, and Engineer pointing guns at one another. I fully admit to the frustration of experiencing that POV as a UX practitioner. I do all three—and I’m ready to build.
Beat me to it. Andreesen is a freaking Bond villain. He’s one of the biggest threats to humanity and democracy. I was almost willing to tolerate all the AI bullshit on this Substack given your reputation, but this? I’m out.
It's always fascinating when men who know nothing about sequential art or the comics industry use AI to make comics because they are always complete failures in the formal/compositional sense as well as being badly drawn with incomplete ideas.
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud is a good book to read before embarrassing yourself by pretending you know someone else's art form.
This is so cringe. Shockingly, Jakob can't see the usability issue with this new technology or the flaw in Andreessen's argument - AI introduces the paradox of plenty. So rather than giving the child agency to "move the world", you devalue learning, skills and thought, because it is outsourced and plentiful.
That child does not have agency, what he really has is a cognitive crutch that inhibits original thought and memory.
If Jakob was correct, students would be able to maintain their performance once access to AI was restricted. In reality, when students no longer have access to AI, their scores plummet.
Gross. Andreesen is a purveyor of fascism.
AH funds Flock, the AI-enabled ALPRs and security cameras that create a vast warrantless surveillance state.
Along with buddies at Palantir, the company currently inserting itself into DHS and creating apps out of vast troves of your personal government data now paired with commercial datasets to more efficiently rid the US of brown people, AH represents the most terrifying vision of our future I can fathom.
Thiel, Andreesen, Karp and Musk espouse a techno-optimist belief that the leaders of tech deserve supremacy and absolute freedom to do whatever they deem necessary to advance technology, and that there must be a great apocalyptic event to cleanse the world of liberal ideas like social responsibility and ethics in technology.
a belief that anything technology can do is permissible, and any cost to humans today is worth it for the benefits to the superior humans of tomorrow.
I’d that is heroic to you, then you are my enemy.
When I hear them speak, or I hear things like “time to build” I imagine this is what was said of the railroads and shower tech needed in Germany to implement their final solutions. The “Palantirization of Everything” = “we’re like Nazis, but for X!”
What is efficiency if used on behalf of a death cult
My favorite article of yours so far, Jakob—it resonated with me on many levels. The concept of the Bloom Two Sigma Effect is fascinating.
My wife is an early childhood educator and preschool owner who developed her own curriculum influenced by mindfulness and Montessori methods that encourage agency. We raised all our children this way, and watching them enter this new era has been humbling. They are inspired and eager to build, yet grounded and self-aware.
I’ve recently adjusted my ChatGPT and Copilot settings to prioritize teaching, and I’ve absolutely improved—both professionally and personally—through AI tutoring.
I laughed out loud at the image of the UX, Product, and Engineer pointing guns at one another. I fully admit to the frustration of experiencing that POV as a UX practitioner. I do all three—and I’m ready to build.