Thoughts on tech, startups, AI, project progress, and personal topics.
If you listen closely to what AI Execs say about how AI will change the world, you'll likely come away with amazement, horror, or some unholy combination of the two. One particular outcome that many of these sorts seem drawn to is the advent of the 'Solopreneur billionaire': a man or woman who's come to the threshold of capitalist glory all by themselves (and an army of yet-to-be-developed AI agents).
The closest thing to Emstrata's emergent narratives, in practice, is a well-structured Dungeons and Dragons campaign. This much is irrefutable. We borrowed many mechanics and parameters from the strategy game created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, like rolling probabilities for realistic consequences.
Can anyone think of a more apt way our society comes to a screeching halt than through the monopolization of human attention? It seems we haven't learned much from our experiments in degrading people's dopamine receptors and neural circuits for decades at this point.
Language learning is an incredible pain. Most people I know took Spanish in high school and the amount of Spanish that they retained couldn't order them a taco. So few Americans are bilingual today and the reason is obvious; you really only need English in the United States to get by.
AI storytelling and the ability to immerse yourself in AI generated worlds is entering a brand new era. The good news is apps like Emstrata, have no interest in replacing human creativity or diminishing artistic minds, but rather harnessing them to work alongside AI to create a profound experience that couldn't have existed in the pre-LLM era.
I became enamored by the world of startups after seeing The Social Network in high school. I had previously wanted to become a music producer and chase the dream of being an artist. Something was activated in me by that movie...
Convenience Apps: Applications that deconstruct an errand or process that would normally take time away from your day and minimize those errand's impact on your schedule and remove them from your immediate attention...
PLATO5 stands for platonic relationships based on the Big 5 personality traits. It's a clever app with transformative potential. Its modus operandi zooms in on the pipeline from online connection to IRL friendship...
The internet revolutionized many industries and fundamentally uprooted processes that we all depend on on a daily basis. Chief among these is distribution. Distribution of goods and services, distribution of communication, and distribution of information...
The greatest opportunity for ascension in the 2020s lies in AI integration and figuring out how AI will be used in the coming decades. AI models are experiencing extreme innovation, but the true profiteers of this time will be the people who find out how to use these models in the most useful manner.
Besides the on-the-nose reference to Peter Thiel's Zero to One (one of my favorites), this blog post is mostly going to discuss my early experiences building PLATO5 and the challenges therein.