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How friction is being redistributed in today's economy
AI Chatbots, Newark, and the West Village Girls
AI is the newest terrain in a decades-long race to eliminate all forms of cognitive resistance - to build the most complete, most seamless, most profitable mind-melder that follows you across platforms, logs your preferences, and gently nudges you toward products, perspectives, or more recently, policies. NY Mag has an excellent article on the prevalence of AI in colleges- one student said college now feels like “how well I can use ChatGPT.” Others describe writing essays as a coordination problem: get the prompt, feed it to the bot, skim the output, add some filler, hit submit. I’ve written a lot about the Trump administration’s economic strategy - and how much of it operates on a kind of kayfabe logic: tariffs as punishment, allies turned into villains, trade reduced to plot points on some grand World Wide Wrestling Entertainment Stage.
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