Why I'm starting to blog (and you probably should too)
The best way to preserve the Internet as you like it is to make it yourself.
While of course it would be cool if you give me a follow here or on Twitter, currently I'm primarily planning to run this blog for myself.
Here's why:
Whatever will happen with AI in the coming years, it's clear that the share of "original", human-made content will keep shrinking.
Blogging as a (public) notetaking is a good form to organize thoughts and potentially find people who think similarly to you.
I needed a blog that uses Markdown as a backend to make it AI-friendly. Some time in the future, I'll connect some knowledge-graph-powered AI assistant to it. AI that helps discover human knowledge = good, AI that obfuscates it with spam and slop = bad.
I got deplatformed from Instagram, and my iPhone is device-banned. During the COVID lockdown, I started an Instagram page with computer science memes and some AI experiments (mostly CLIP-VQGAN and Stable Diffusion 1 art). When I hit 15k followers, my account was suddenly deleted for breaking ToS - apparently, for some Trump-related Stable Diffusion model. I thought, "OK, so no politics, will keep in mind", and started a new account. After over a year, I grew it to over 15k accounts, and it got banned too. Ironically, it happened literally two hours before Zucc's podcast with Joe Rogan, where he was claiming how they were forced to censor people, but now they don't. I lost thousands of my posts, hundreds of bookmarks, and countless contacts and friends I made there. Never again will I rely on a closed-source social platform so much.
I'm inspired by Simon Willison's blog. Sharing findings and observations while being independent from AI recommendation systems is just so nice.
Let's build our own Internet before it's too late.