I write about tech + humans + philosophy
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/
JA Westenberg
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he’s going to do it again
“I failed five times before I succeeded” is only an interesting story because you succeeded
every single person who said my idea was “insane” and “borderline criminal” is now working at THEIR little job for THEIR little salary while i just bought a second Cybertruck with fraud money. keep talking
I've been writing a weekly essay for a while now. Tech, culture, the stuff that keeps me up at night.
People seem to like it.
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The empathy gap isn't that we can't understand others' suffering. We're great at that - for strangers online.
The gap is we'll write 2000-word threads about injustice abroad and can't remember our roommate mentioned their mom was sick.
Scale broke our moral intuitions etc.
Sympathy is a psychological mechanism with operational limits. It works best at close range, and it diminishes with distance, whether that distance is geographical, relational or a function of how much shit one has on one’s plate at any given time.
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Descartes: I think therefore I am
Modern brain: I think therefore I'm anxious, should probably stop thinking, wait now I'm thinking about not thinking fuck
We have spent 100x more compute training AI to generate waifu art than to solve protein folding. I am not saying this is the Great Filter, but if aliens find our radioactive remains, they’re going to be very confused by the hard drives...
the bar for “thought leader” has gotten so low that having any thought at all qualifies
