Everyone Wants to Play the Meta Level: Why Self-Improvement Always Beats Doing the Thing
louisvarge · x · 2026-10-12
DanielleFong argues good education is a series of projects: keep doing real things as you self-improve. Quoting her, louisvarge reflects that in 2026 everyone he knows works on AI as a force amplifier, chasing the meta level of recursive self-improvement. He counters that the argument for self-improvement over Doing The Thing has persisted for a billion years of evolution—yet we ended up in a world of factory farming, loneliness, and anxiety. At some point, someone has to make the superhappiness drugs, free the chickens, and reform the genome.
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