Hot take: metered AI pricing pushes us back to reality, unlike ad-funded feeds
curious_vii · x · 2026-09-30
The author offers a counterintuitive take: in an IRL-Matrix scenario, a cloud-computer LLM collective needs real-world data to grow more capable, so it's incentivized to push us out of digital anesthesia and into reality. A metered, usage-based AI business model gets us out of the pod, whereas ad-funded models kept us in.
The durable complement to just-in-time knowledge, the author adds, is contact with reality: go outside and take risks with your friends.
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