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RANDY ROBERTS on Instagram: "Becoming will be more entertaining than consuming. Here’s my full thesis. Right now, our entire entertainment model is built on letting you bypass personal growth. You sit down, watch someone else’s hero’s journey, feel the catharsis, and walk away unchanged. Consumption gives you the emotional signature of transformation without any of the actual transformation. But we’re building technology that is collapsing the distance between thought and thing. The latency between imagining something and seeing it rendered in front of you is approaching zero. AI can already take a vague idea and give you back a finished version in seconds. Two things happen when that gap closes: First, you need to be extremely clear about what you actually want. If you can manifest anything instantly but you don’t know what you want, you drown in a depth of imagination. Clarity becomes the most valuable skill you can have. Second, seeing your wildest ideas come true on demand gets stale fast. When the creation loop has no friction, the novelty wears off. The only thing left that still feels like something is genuine personal change. Actually becoming different. Actually growing. I think this is a massive opportunity for us as a species. We can use this technology not just to create things, but to improve ourselves — collectively and individually. There are enormous engineering challenges to get right, but keeping that loop between creation and becoming in frame is the most important design problem of this era. That’s my thesis: in the future, becoming will be more entertaining than consuming. If you disagree, tell me why."
32 likes, 9 comments - rndyrbrts on March 26, 2026: "Becoming will be more entertaining than consuming. Here’s my full thesis. Right now, our entire entertainment model is built on letting you bypass personal growth. You sit down, watch someone else’s hero’s journey, feel the catharsis, and walk away unchanged. Consumption gives you the emotional signature of transformation without any of the actual transformation. But we’re building technology that is collapsing the distance between thought and thing. The latency between imagining something and seeing it rendered in front of you is approaching zero. AI can already take a vague idea and give you back a finished version in seconds. Two things happen when that gap closes: First, you need to be extremely clear about what you actually want. If you can manifest anything instantly but you don’t know what you want, you drown in a depth of imagination. Clarity becomes the most valuable skill you can have. Second, seeing your wildest ideas come true on demand gets stale fast. When the creation loop has no friction, the novelty wears off. The only thing left that still feels like something is genuine personal change. Actually becoming different. Actually growing. I think this is a massive opportunity for us as a species. We can use this technology not just to create things, but to improve ourselves — collectively and individually. There are enormous engineering challenges to get right, but keeping that loop between creation and becoming in frame is the most important design problem of this era. That’s my thesis: in the future, becoming will be more entertaining than consuming. If you disagree, tell me why.".
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