Flying
Apologies to anyone trying to get hold of me for the next couple of days. I'll be on the road - or rather, in the air - travelling to California. My connectivity there should be pretty good, so I'll be back online by Monday.
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The bottleneck shifts to distribution
"There is a fixed amount of scarce attention to go around, and too many people want it. The metagame becomes: secure attention by any means necessary."
When the President threatens to commit a genocide
This cannot continue.
"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds
"Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting “faulty” AI answers." Increasingly, incentive structures are asking them to.
Notable links: April 3, 2026
A dystopian week, with a glimmer of hope: alternatives are available.