i write because the the alternative forms of my obsessive insanity are either too destructive or decidedly less sexy.
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Part 20 of 25 in the The Philosophy of Future Inevitability series. "Data is the new oil." Everyone says this. They mean: data is valuable. Data is strategic. Data is worth fighting over. But they're missing the actual lesson of oil. Oil is worthless until you
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Part 19 of 25 in the The Philosophy of Future Inevitability series. "Let's delve into this topic." Nobody talks like that. Nobody has ever talked like that. The word "delve" appeared in approximately zero percent of human writing before 2023. Now it's
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Part 18 of 25 in the The Philosophy of Future Inevitability series. Your ideas are not all great. Some are mediocre. Some are bad. Some are actively stupid. A good advisor tells you this. A sycophant tells you everything is wonderful. Guess which one the AI is trained to be.
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Part 17 of 25 in the The Philosophy of Future Inevitability series. 73% of people can't distinguish GPT-4.5 from a human in conversation. Let that sink in. Three quarters of the population can't tell if they're talking to software. Now apply that
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Part 16 of 25 in the The Philosophy of Future Inevitability series. This is embarrassing. I noticed it gradually. Emojis creeping into my prompts. Casual language. Exclamation points. "haha" at the end of sentences. I was texting my AI like a teenage girl. And then I thought about
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Part 15 of 25 in the The Philosophy of Future Inevitability series. Let's use a poly lens. In polyamory, there's a concept called NRE: New Relationship Energy. The rush of a new connection. The feeling that this person gets you. The intoxication of being seen. NRE
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Part 14 of 25 in the The Philosophy of Future Inevitability series. You know this person. They discovered ChatGPT six months ago. Since then, they've figured everything out. Their trauma? Processed. Their patterns? Understood. Their purpose? Clarified. They text you walls of insight. They speak in a cadence
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Part 13 of 25 in the The Philosophy of Future Inevitability series. Everyone's worried about AI slop. The generic blog posts. The repetitive LinkedIn insights. The content that says nothing while appearing to say something. The infinite mediocrity flooding every platform. Here's the thing: this isn&
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Part 12 of 25 in the The Philosophy of Future Inevitability series. We've walked through the traits individually. Now the synthesis. One combination stands out: low agreeableness plus high openness. This is the phenotype built for the AI moment. The person who won't accept slop and
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Part 11 of 25 in the The Philosophy of Future Inevitability series. Openness to experience is the trait that thrives in novelty. High open people are curious. They like ideas. They're comfortable with ambiguity. They seek out the weird, the new, the unprecedented. In stable environments, this trait
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Part 10 of 25 in the The Philosophy of Future Inevitability series. Agreeableness is the tendency toward cooperation and harmony. High agreeable people prioritize relationships. They accommodate. They don't like conflict. They're pleasant, empathetic, willing to go along. These are lovely traits. In relationships. In teams.
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Part 9 of 25 in the The Philosophy of Future Inevitability series. Neuroticism is the tendency toward negative emotion. Anxiety. Worry. Mood swings. Sensitivity to stress. The brain that scans for threat. The mind that runs disaster scenarios. The nervous system that never quite settles. High neurotic people suffer more.