Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Dean W. Ball said
discipline Doing the work when you do not feel like it: whether showing up is the whole secret, or systems and enjoyment beat willpower.
AI agents Agents beyond the editor: software that acts on your behalf, and what independence it should be given.
Agents will need persistent, unique identifiers that allow their actions to be traced back to a responsible actor. Doing this successfully will also require human users to possess a unique identifier.
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Whoever wants to censor -- code, speech or money -- is the bad guy.
Ravikant says whoever wants to censor code, speech or money is the bad guy. Ball says AI agents will need persistent identifiers tracing their actions back to a responsible actor, and so will the humans directing them. Attribution is not censorship, and every censorship regime that has worked was built on top of one.
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.