5.2K bookmarks, zero readers: AI circle jokes about Manidis's 'Commanding Heights'
floguo · x · 2026-10-30
A viral joke thread mocks how Will Manidis's year-in-the-making essay "The Commanding Heights" — arguing abundant intelligence will shift capital and economic power far outside San Francisco — racked up 5.2K bookmarks while nobody in the conversation actually read it or could define its key terms. A snapshot of AI circles' bookmark-without-reading culture.
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