Elijah Kleinsmith

Furthermore, no one wants to use your shitty SaaS interface. That’s always been a compromise. People will literally make full-time hires to deal with interfaces they don’t want to manage directly.

I think one of the biggest/most common mis-predictions that will come from the beginning of the AI era is that there “must be something better than a chat interface.”

Have you worked in an office? People love chat. Language is what makes humans uniquely social.

Culture is temporary. Technology is forever.

A heavy watch reminds you to move slowly.

One reason I can tell I love my wife is because hearing her laugh is like crack to me.

“The first explorers of Earth had long since come to the limits of flesh and blood; as soon as their machines were better than their bodies, it was time to move.”

If you think you hate innovative technology now, I promise you’re going to like irrelevance even less. Merry Christmas!

“…the fact that Hal’s builders had failed fully to understand the psychology of their own creation showed how difficult it might be to establish communication with truly alien beings.”

To Hal, this was the equivalent of Death. For he had never slept, and therefore he did not know that one could wake again…

We change the world through our art by way of concession that within each of us is a world model, conscious, self-perceiving, malleable yet significant.

The eternal hunger that comes with endurance training is similar to the lore around vampiric hunger. I eat and I eat—sometimes I even feel engorged—yet I can’t shake the hunger. It’s as though the nutrition can’t reach my cells fast enough.

Il faut être absolument moderne.

What made Opus 3 so special in this way, do you think? I have excellent creative folks who swore by that model in a blind test.

a still from the 2025 OpenAI Super Bowl ad which looks like a black circle above a sea of smaller black circles

Black hole sun, won’t you come?