I Got Pixeled
The day the screen stops counting as evidence, trust does not disappear. It moves to whatever is still expensive to fake, and that is mostly a person in a room. Six predictions for the fallout. … readI Got Pixeled
Tag: generative AI
Second-Hand Actuals
All summer, surprise died from the denominator side — retrained, smoothed, metered. This is the other death: when prediction engines write a growing share of the record, the numerator arrives pre-expected, and the tails — the wild, improbable arrivals — are the first thing the loop deletes. … readSecond-Hand Actuals
Only One of You Is Learning
Every relationship is two prediction engines retraining on each other’s artifacts. Your assistant’s weights are frozen between training runs, so all the adapting happens on your side: you converge toward it, and it never moves toward you. … readOnly One of You Is Learning
The Legible Gate
Your denominator was defended by illegibility: nobody — the marketer, the state, you — could state it. A personal AI that carries your memory writes it down, and what is written can be read. The only question left open is who holds the ledger. … readThe Legible Gate
The Common Denominator
Expectation was always the private term in the attention equation. Now millions of minds are filling it from the same few models — and when denominators converge, surprise becomes a correlated asset. … readThe Common Denominator
Expectation Inflation
Every surprise attention admits is deposited into Expectation, so the fare for the next one rises. AI has put that ratchet on industrial power, and the only counter-move is learning to deflate the one variable in the equation you own. … readExpectation Inflation
Influence Without Attention
Every idea used to pay its way into a mind through the gate of surprise. Machines have opened a second door — one that writes directly into Expectation, so ideas arrive feeling obvious, unattributed, and already believed. … readInfluence Without Attention
Grammarly Was the App | App to Stack
Grammarly built a $700 million business on one capability, then generative AI made that capability too easy to remain a destination. Its rename to Superhuman is the cleanest case study yet of the shift from apps to stacks. … readGrammarly Was the App | App to Stack
The Software Is Claude. The Landscaping System Is the Integration.
Frontier AI did not kill the systems integrator; it made systems integration the whole job. The famous MIT number does not say 95% of AI pilots fail — it says most companies never commissioned the integration work at all. … readThe Software Is Claude. The Landscaping System Is the Integration.
Google Did Not Ban AI Content
The tool that typed the sentence is not the decisive fact. The publishing system behind the sentence is. The August event changed the machinery of detection. Google did not publish a new prohibition on AI-authored pages. … readGoogle Did Not Ban AI Content