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Read this korrent: AI is being used to make money by exploiting people’s desire to connect.
AI is being used to make money by exploiting people’s desire to connect.
Last stated a year ago
1 Oct 2025
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Ken Liu — holds since 2025-10-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI serves as a new mechanism to convert real-world resources into digital tokens. — tap to centre the map on it
AI serves as a new mechanism to convert real-world resources into digital tokens.
Last stated a month ago
22 Sept 2026
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Douglas Rushkoff — holds since 2026-09-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI is being used to scam the public in science and academic communication. — tap to centre the map on it
AI is being used to scam the public in science and academic communication.
Last stated 3 months ago
16 Aug 2026
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Peter Woit — holds since 2026-08-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: After all the investment and hype, AI assistants still have to be begged not to be lazy. — tap to centre the map on it
After all the investment and hype, AI assistants still have to be begged not to be lazy.
Last stated a year ago
1 Oct 2025
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Ken Liu — holds since 2025-10-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI marketed as a pure augmenting 'tool' will end up automating jobs anyway, since firms control how it's used. — tap to centre the map on it
AI marketed as a pure augmenting 'tool' will end up automating jobs anyway, since firms control how it's used.
Last stated 6 months ago
13 May 2026
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Jasmine Sun — holds since 2026-05-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: When money is on the line, AI makes it easier to disguise low-quality work as legitimate. — tap to centre the map on it
When money is on the line, AI makes it easier to disguise low-quality work as legitimate.
Last stated 6 months ago
6 May 2026
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Aaron Patterson — holds since 2026-05-06 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI's rise is making human connection scarcer, requiring deliberate effort to find it. — tap to centre the map on it
AI's rise is making human connection scarcer, requiring deliberate effort to find it.
Last stated 3 months ago
18 Aug 2026
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Tiago Forte — holds since 2026-08-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Using AI to integrate AI into the economy quickly probably has a lot of leverage. — tap to centre the map on it
Using AI to integrate AI into the economy quickly probably has a lot of leverage.
Last stated a year ago
16 Jun 2025
JK
Jared Kaplan — holds since 2025-06-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI is spreading partly because so many people are desperate to escape their lives. — tap to centre the map on it
AI is spreading partly because so many people are desperate to escape their lives.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
21 Oct 2026
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Naomi Klein — holds since 2026-10-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company that deviates from open standards in its data exports without documenting the deviation creates an artificial vendor lock-in. — tap to centre the map on it
A company that deviates from open standards in its data exports without documenting the deviation creates an artificial vendor lock-in.
Last stated 2 years ago
3 Mar 2025
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Tobias Sjösten — holds since 2025-03-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A country's war effort improves when scarce resources flow to its most effective units rather than being spread evenly across all of them. — tap to centre the map on it
A country's war effort improves when scarce resources flow to its most effective units rather than being spread evenly across all of them.
Last stated 4 months ago
10 Jul 2026
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Austin Vernon — holds since 2026-07-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A dominant company's lead in market share compounds over time and becomes harder for competitors to close, especially in technology. — tap to centre the map on it
A dominant company's lead in market share compounds over time and becomes harder for competitors to close, especially in technology.
Last stated a month ago
22 Sept 2026
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Barry Ritholtz — holds since 2026-09-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A ban on AI is unlikely. — tap to centre the map on it
A ban on AI is unlikely.
Last stated 4 months ago
18 Jul 2026
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John Horgan — holds since 2026-07-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A ban on self-recursive improvement in AI models would create a big incentive for some other parts of the world to invest a lot more in compute. — tap to centre the map on it
A ban on self-recursive improvement in AI models would create a big incentive for some other parts of the world to invest a lot more in compute.
Last stated a month ago
22 Sept 2026
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Tyler Cowen — holds since 2026-09-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A border wall through Big Bend would be a monument to corruption that makes no one safer. — tap to centre the map on it
A border wall through Big Bend would be a monument to corruption that makes no one safer.
Last stated 4 months ago
13 Jul 2026
JT
James Talarico — holds since 2026-07-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A free person asks neither what the country can do for them nor what they can do for the country — tap to centre the map on it
A free person asks neither what the country can do for them nor what they can do for the country
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Milton Friedman — holds since c. 1962 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A policy of freedom for the individual is still the only truly progressive policy, as in the nineteenth century — tap to centre the map on it
A policy of freedom for the individual is still the only truly progressive policy, as in the nineteenth century
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Friedrich Hayek — holds since c. 1944 — tap for who they are
Same subject: An alliance with abundance liberals is likely a more promising political strategy for libertarians than a revival of fusionism in the short to medium term. — tap to centre the map on it
An alliance with abundance liberals is likely a more promising political strategy for libertarians than a revival of fusionism in the short to medium term.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
14 Oct 2026
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Ilya Somin — holds since 2026-10-14 — tap for who they are
same subject or similar wording a cloud: claims about one subject, named for it bar: when it was last stated, on a scale from 2015 to today — full is today a face: someone who holds the claim — tap it for who they are