Duncan Cock Foster

The truest form of privilege is to be born with a desire for constant change.

Most people find change uncomfortable. But in the modern world, becoming wealthy and happy depends on embracing constant change and growth.

If you naturally enjoy change, count your blessings!

We need a word to describe when an idea or belief is wrong; but societally useful when everyone believes it to be true

I keep encountering this phenomenon

AI doomerism is mostly an overcorrection to a total lack of Internet doomerism

No one thought the Internet would be bad and it turned out to be quite bad in many ways

Everyone has way overcorrected and is now unnecessarily afraid of AI

The worst part of living in an autocracy has got to be the fact that you don’t get to enjoy the absolute hilarity of post Election Day Twitter

Prediction markets as a source of news basically didn’t exist 5 years ago, and now they’re overwhelmingly the best way to figure out election results quickly.

It’s remarkable!