I think it's a good video.

"The restaurant doesn't exist" is an important axiom.

It's why recommendation engines are useless, Netflix has nothing more. Smart users will see TikTok doesn't really have a good recommendation engine, just good content, bite sized so lots can be produced.

> the world seems limitless but for these physical things it's actually fairly limited

This is a really good quote, it also applies to digital.

Anyway, a list of tarpit ideas would be useful. The axiom's are too hard, like software complexity and getting money out of educational institutions.

> Smart users will see TikTok doesn't really have a good recommendation engine, just good content, bite sized so lots can be produced.

This. Nobody has invented a Recommendation engines that really works, the ones that seem to work just have lots of content they can throw at you. I really think tiktok would be no less succesful with an engine that simply threw a random video at you. Recommendations is a really hard problem and anyone that solves it had essentially solved AGI