| ▲ | mpalmer 4 hours ago | |
As a work of persuasive writing, this is unfocused and seems mostly generated. One thing I would have expected of someone who knows their history - forget LLMs, this is how startups have worked for decades now. You're only as good as your idea, your ability to execute, and your moat. And the small fish get eaten. > The original Dark Forest assumes civilizations hide from hunters - other civilizations that might destroy them. But in the cognitive dark forest, the most dangerous actor is not your peer. It’s the forest itself. Note the needless undercutting of the metaphor for the sake of the limp rhetorical flourish. > I wrote this knowing it feeds the thing I’m warning you about. That’s not a contradiction. That’s the condition. You can’t step outside the forest to warn people about the forest. There is no outside. Quite dramatic! Except literally going outside and just talking to people? Using whiteboards? Also, you fed it when you used a model to write this blog post. You didn't have to do that. | ||