Tsvi and I talk “slop”, “the ease disease”, and desire paths

• original twitter thread
• The Ease Disease
• Worse is Better

00:00 — Slop, Cheapness, and the Ease Disease
05:23 — What Exactly Is the “Ease Disease”?
12:02 — AI, Writing, and Learning by Doing
15:45 — Are Phones Really Making Us Choose Ease?
23:52 — When Nobody Does It the Hard Way
26:41 — Streetlighting and AI Alignment
30:58 — Partial Solutions and “Worse Is Better”
41:15 — Desire Paths and When Things Add Up
43:49 — Aborted Desire Paths and Collective Effort
51:21 — Behaviorism as a Test Case
59:20 — Geometric Rationality and Coordination