neology & etymology: words i coined, or coined in usage, and words i borrowed
neology & etymology
coined, or coined in usage
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Institutional Narcissism / Narcissistic Industrial Complex
organizations that assert self-interest at any cost and treat the externalities as someone else’s problem
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Living like an LLM
tracking everything, outsourcing all cognitive labor, then waiting for better models to fix the dissatisfaction
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Ease-addicted / autopilot-addicted / cognitive-outsourcing-addicted
the vegetable spectrum
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The commoditized me
the version of you a company sells back to you
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Uni-context / uni-polar
homogenization: everyone gets the same optimized output, and the sensory system and the screen become one continuous stimulus. uni-context after Derek Thompson
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Greyscale
the target state of being unattached to any affiliation, faction or sexiness
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Ideal Self industry
whole industries propped up on aspiration
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The lonely chapter
the step back you never take because short-term reward wins
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Human-first vs agent-first design modalities
my two design registers
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Situation of the Commons
a good, service or situation where my use affects yours, versus the private interior that stays mine
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Structural individualism
the Western order of individuals thriving alongside individuals, which taste-loss erodes
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Sociolearning commitment
an externally scheduled, no-opt-out cohort
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Flow circumstances
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Post-haste forgiveness approach
the industry’s ask-forgiveness-not-permission posture, with post hoc folded in
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Agent Daddy
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Intentional AI
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Attention-commoditized generation
anyone who grew up on the internet from 1995 on
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Identity-as-consumption labels
“Labubu boy”, “Gym Rat”
borrowed
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RAMaggedon
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tokenmaxxing
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GEO → AEO
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Yondr pouch
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“The Interrupted Life”
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Agent Orchestrator
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Time poor
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Time slave
after Jasmine Sun
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Babysitting agents
the human job of knowing when to call an agent’s bluff
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Out-of-distribution adventures
the moat is doing what has no training data
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Complements to AI
conferences, robots, esoteric datasets
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Don’t specialize in SOPs
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Personality hires
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Vibes-based decision-makers
her label for rationality bros