
Gavriel Shaw (h/first)
@GavrielShaw
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Book: Atomic Agency — Cognitive Acceleration for Humans The Human First Newsletter/Podcast
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Joined December 2007
Exploring the future of work through applied anthropology. Writing "Atomic Agency: Cognitive Acceleration for Humans" & hosting the Human First Podcast. Subscribe & prepare to be challenged. Link in bio.
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PS. besides the natural highs, I've also experienced deep deep frustration with AI these past few months of learning to agentic code. It's not all sunshine and rainbows, buttercup.
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Been writing code with Claude Sonnet 4.5 for planning and Haiku 4.5 for implementation — almost feels like the future. "Thought into Thing" — the Di Silvestro equation. IYKYK. I had 2 days of smiley happy-go-lucky natural high last week. Haven't felt that since I was 18. The
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If you want to improve your psychological patience, discipline, resilience, grit and anti-fragility.... try vibe coding with AI to produce functional apps.
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Hello Frens, got some news. 6-ish weeks ago AI became good enough for me to begin coding. Based on a couple decades of software product management and general marketing experience, I am finally able to produce quality software products of my own. Or so I thought… Truth is, it’s
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People want to know "where we come from". Rather than aliens or deities, why don't they look to physics?
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See the future by understanding the past: * Sumer (from 4500 BCE) — local trade, cultural exchange, loose influential hegemony, no violent colonial Imperialism. * Akkad (from 2334 BCE) — military conquest, centralized governance, wealth extraction, coercive imposition. Only
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Conglomerates were unbundled in yesterday's ear of one-trick pony startups. With the advent of AI, digital acceleration will allow the bundling fully-integrated ecosystems. The big social platforms (X, Insta, Facebook, etc) became 2-sided (us vs them). Tomorrow, multi-sided
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Buzz is due about ancient languages supporting new forms of human cognition. "We are not interested in proto-languages. We are interested in proto-humans as they spoke, so we can understand post-humans as they will speak." -Ayndryl Think harder.
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I try to avoid talking about current political events despite the temptation of wanting to rant and rave to vent deep soul level existential frustration... however... We can talk about it from the POV of human agency, gullible stupidity, 'identity politics', and cognitive bias.
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French Emperor & Italian King Napoleon Bonaparte led the death of approx 2 million soldiers under his command across ~20 years in 70 battles. (Let's guesstimate a matching 2 million or so on the opposing sides too!) That was just 200 years ago. Fundamental human morality has
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Why is AI a lot like humans? Because they operate from a narrow context and always think they're right!
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You think enabling AI to operate society under the umbrella of a colonial imperialist backdrop of elitist control will manifest a benevolent society? Think again. The stochastic generative tendency of AI will impose an Orwellian superstate unless we train the models with a new
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Tribes --> Confederates --> States --> Empires. At every stage of human development, men have waged war to pillage from other groups. Thus 'Empire' (to command by strength of force) became the ultimate goal for self-protection. Today, we can look past that archaic
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Did you know the Holy Trinity concept did NOT come from Biblical Jesus, but from Emperor Constantine 300 years AFTER Jesus? Constantine united the Roman Empire system with religion to foment modern religious superstate empire. Our Modern imperialism is born from that. This
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End Game for American Politics: Musk uses his boring company to tunnel the Baring Straight between US and Russia... obsoleting the European Colonial Empire.
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It's high time we had a social platform that makes it authentic social media again, instead of AI generated attention media. .... coming soon.
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