Drifting Toward the Status Quo
Update: 2025-10-23
Description
If you’ve ever chosen an ambitious, unconventional, or deeply meaningful aim only to see your plan devolve into something far more run-of-the-mill, this one is for you.
Footnotes:
- Read the essay version of this episode.
- "AI Can't Even Turn On the Lights" on The Vergecast
- About OpenAI
- "Applying Systems Archetypes" via The Systems Thinker
- Sam Altman saying we've "surpassed" the definition of AGI from 5 years ago
- More from Tara on AI:
- "What is a search engine? Or, Anne Leckie versus the 'Well, Actually' Bros"
- "Always Be Optimizing"
- "Black Box Thinking"
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