Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll
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It's funny how the Internet now, everybody can comment on everything. Every technology cycle to me is increasingly harder because you're probably going into a different part of how the human mind operates. Right now we're like developing personality. That's that's insane. There's technology. There's culture,
which is collective. And then there's our individual progress as a human species. Culture's changing. Technology's improving. Where are we as people?
I can't believe the scale of which we're at now. Like, it's absolutely unbelievable. I was at OpenAI. We were discussing a bunch of things around how do you think about personality development of models, and these are really technically hard problems. I think the number one challenge even OpenAI mentioned is that how do we make the power of the models more easily accessible and useful in terms of what they can do? And I think this is happening with agents, but it still seems very primitive and very inaccessible to a lot of individuals.
I think that the number one way you change the NPS of AI is you make important things cheap, quickly.
Shakespeare argued brevity is the soul of wit. Prediction markets bet that crowds know the future better than experts. And dating apps turn the most universal human desire into a design problem that technology may have made worse, not better. These three ideas seem unrelated, but they share a root. The gap between what people know formally and what they understand intuitively. Economists call this tacit knowledge. It's a knack for reading a room, fixing an engine, or sensing when a product is right before the data confirms it. Most of Silicon Valley still rewards the formal kind. But something
Here live with Signal, the great culture commentator of our time. You have opinions on everything from, you know, what's happening in AI both as a consumer, but also the industry to what's happening in all the big tech companies to what's happened in dating markets more broadly to how the product should be developed. There's no commentator like you. How do you sort of make sense of yourself on the Internet in terms of how you thread these topics together? What sort of threads it all?
I mean, I could have an opinion on Iran and dating at the same time.
And maybe Within minutes of each other.
Maybe even Iranian dating. Like
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