jasmine sun
@jasmine.bsky.social
generative adversarial / writing jasmine.substack.com
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A self-identified “engineer” went viral on Reddit (& on social media) w/damning allegations about one of the food delivery apps. Then they circulated a legit-looking “internal document” to journalists, including me.
The whole thing was an AI-generated scam intended to smear Uber. Here’s the story
The whole thing was an AI-generated scam intended to smear Uber. Here’s the story
An AI-Generated Reddit Post Fooled the Internet. It Was Only Half of an Elaborate Scam.
I traded Signal messages with someone purporting to have serious dirt on Uber. They used AI to make the whole thing up.
open.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:25 AM
A self-identified “engineer” went viral on Reddit (& on social media) w/damning allegations about one of the food delivery apps. Then they circulated a legit-looking “internal document” to journalists, including me.
The whole thing was an AI-generated scam intended to smear Uber. Here’s the story
The whole thing was an AI-generated scam intended to smear Uber. Here’s the story
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The Peptide Craze in the US. It's reckless and unfounded.
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-peptid...
Today @nytimes.com @jasmine.bsky.social goes deep into the use in Silicon Valley, the supply from China, and the reasons this biohacking is popular
t.co/lQXUBHNEaG
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-peptid...
Today @nytimes.com @jasmine.bsky.social goes deep into the use in Silicon Valley, the supply from China, and the reasons this biohacking is popular
t.co/lQXUBHNEaG
January 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The Peptide Craze in the US. It's reckless and unfounded.
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-peptid...
Today @nytimes.com @jasmine.bsky.social goes deep into the use in Silicon Valley, the supply from China, and the reasons this biohacking is popular
t.co/lQXUBHNEaG
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-peptid...
Today @nytimes.com @jasmine.bsky.social goes deep into the use in Silicon Valley, the supply from China, and the reasons this biohacking is popular
t.co/lQXUBHNEaG
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I’m quoted in today’s @nytimes.com on the "Chinese peptides" trend in SF. She asked about the "founder mindset" applied to biology. My take: "The entrepreneurial parallel isn't funding a scrappy start-up. It's wiring money to an unregistered offshore entity based on a pitch deck." buff.ly/n5nEob
January 3, 2026 at 6:09 PM
I’m quoted in today’s @nytimes.com on the "Chinese peptides" trend in SF. She asked about the "founder mindset" applied to biology. My take: "The entrepreneurial parallel isn't funding a scrappy start-up. It's wiring money to an unregistered offshore entity based on a pitch deck." buff.ly/n5nEob
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Reporting live from the legendary Bimbo’s in SF, @elirosenberg.bsky.social on the Substack AI debate party with @jasmine.bsky.social, @bcmerchant.bsky.social and others, where the vibe was … surprisingly congenial?
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/live-debat...
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/live-debat...
Live debates are in, but winning them is another story
At a buzzy Substack party in San Francisco, four debates on A.I. showed that team human has plenty of fight in it, even amid the boom. And some goodwill on its side, to boot.
www.hardresetmedia.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Reporting live from the legendary Bimbo’s in SF, @elirosenberg.bsky.social on the Substack AI debate party with @jasmine.bsky.social, @bcmerchant.bsky.social and others, where the vibe was … surprisingly congenial?
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/live-debat...
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/live-debat...
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jasmi.news/p/ai-friends... This is very good, and close in some ways to the Fourcade and @kjhealy.co account of social media, under which it's co-constituted by users rather than being forced on them.
AI friends too cheap to meter
“Let me date my chatbot I’m almost 30 and doing well”
jasmi.news
October 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
jasmi.news/p/ai-friends... This is very good, and close in some ways to the Fourcade and @kjhealy.co account of social media, under which it's co-constituted by users rather than being forced on them.
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"If the world is going to split into the techno kings and the techno peasants, I better prove that I'm gonna stay on top" -
@jasmine.bsky.social describing veiled AI anxiety in San Francisco for The Indicator
@jasmine.bsky.social describing veiled AI anxiety in San Francisco for The Indicator
October 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"If the world is going to split into the techno kings and the techno peasants, I better prove that I'm gonna stay on top" -
@jasmine.bsky.social describing veiled AI anxiety in San Francisco for The Indicator
@jasmine.bsky.social describing veiled AI anxiety in San Francisco for The Indicator
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Everywhere you look these days in San Francisco, there's a new zine, magazine, literary journal, or newspaper.
At Chat Room: Analog on Nov. 19, @cydhayes.bsky.social will sit down with @jasmine.bsky.social, @laurenmarkham.bsky.social, and @ovillalon.bsky.social to discuss SF's print boom.
At Chat Room: Analog on Nov. 19, @cydhayes.bsky.social will sit down with @jasmine.bsky.social, @laurenmarkham.bsky.social, and @ovillalon.bsky.social to discuss SF's print boom.
The Print Party: The publication as an object for community
Announcing our first panel for Chat Room: Analog on Nov. 19
sf.gazetteer.co
October 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Everywhere you look these days in San Francisco, there's a new zine, magazine, literary journal, or newspaper.
At Chat Room: Analog on Nov. 19, @cydhayes.bsky.social will sit down with @jasmine.bsky.social, @laurenmarkham.bsky.social, and @ovillalon.bsky.social to discuss SF's print boom.
At Chat Room: Analog on Nov. 19, @cydhayes.bsky.social will sit down with @jasmine.bsky.social, @laurenmarkham.bsky.social, and @ovillalon.bsky.social to discuss SF's print boom.
A rare first-person account of experiencing AI-induced psychosis, from a young tech founder who "should have known better"
joinreboot.org/p/ai-psychosis
joinreboot.org/p/ai-psychosis
October 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
A rare first-person account of experiencing AI-induced psychosis, from a young tech founder who "should have known better"
joinreboot.org/p/ai-psychosis
joinreboot.org/p/ai-psychosis
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Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are racing to grab a chunk of AI capital and equity as it races upward. Meanwhile the rest of us face a dilemma: "Are you going to be the piggy or be the one making the slop?"
October 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are racing to grab a chunk of AI capital and equity as it races upward. Meanwhile the rest of us face a dilemma: "Are you going to be the piggy or be the one making the slop?"
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“Neo-hustle-culture is a modern twist on Weber’s Protestant ethic: if the world is soon to be divided into the blessed and the damned, the techno-kings and the techno-peasants, anxious technologists should work as hard as they can to prove they deserve to end up on the right side of that divide.”
A fantastic guide to the current terminology & thinking of the Silicon Valley bros, who are riding high at the moment.
(I really can not exaggerate how aesthetically & morally repulsive I find every bit of this.)
(I really can not exaggerate how aesthetically & morally repulsive I find every bit of this.)
are you high-agency or an NPC?
AI anxiety and the new language of silicon valley
jasmi.news
September 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
“Neo-hustle-culture is a modern twist on Weber’s Protestant ethic: if the world is soon to be divided into the blessed and the damned, the techno-kings and the techno-peasants, anxious technologists should work as hard as they can to prove they deserve to end up on the right side of that divide.”
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The latest episode of @kaiserkuo.bsky.social's essential Sinica podcast features @jasmine.bsky.social who is a great China tech watcher. This was one of the topics that they discussed and I very much enjoyed it. It's totally worth your valuable time.
Jasmine Sun on Silicon Valley through a Chinese Mirror
This week on Sinica, co-host Tianyu Fang makes his debut on the show to join me in interviewing his Stanford classmate and talented writer Jasmine Sun, who studies the anthropology of disruption.
www.sinicapodcast.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The latest episode of @kaiserkuo.bsky.social's essential Sinica podcast features @jasmine.bsky.social who is a great China tech watcher. This was one of the topics that they discussed and I very much enjoyed it. It's totally worth your valuable time.
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really good exploration of silicon valley's collective nervous breakdown as its anxieties about deskilling, diminishing returns, etc manifest themselves in self-flattering memes. total sweaty desperation. look at my leading industry dawg we're all going to die
are you high-agency or an NPC?
AI anxiety and the new language of silicon valley
jasmi.news
September 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
really good exploration of silicon valley's collective nervous breakdown as its anxieties about deskilling, diminishing returns, etc manifest themselves in self-flattering memes. total sweaty desperation. look at my leading industry dawg we're all going to die
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Congrats to @jasmine.bsky.social and all our friends at Reboot for 5 years of bold, optimistic thinking!
We applaud this renewed manifesto, centering human agency in how technology is created and developed.
Here’s to 5 more!
We applaud this renewed manifesto, centering human agency in how technology is created and developed.
Here’s to 5 more!
By And For Technologists
Reboot's new mission for 2025 and beyond
joinreboot.org
July 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Congrats to @jasmine.bsky.social and all our friends at Reboot for 5 years of bold, optimistic thinking!
We applaud this renewed manifesto, centering human agency in how technology is created and developed.
Here’s to 5 more!
We applaud this renewed manifesto, centering human agency in how technology is created and developed.
Here’s to 5 more!
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Stumbled into @jasmine.bsky.social's Kernel vol 5 launch party for joinreboot.org last night and boy oh boy was it a needle trip moment. Just when I was losing hope in finding the thread of moral imperative in the Bay Area tech scene! On to Open Sauce conf this weekend.
July 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Stumbled into @jasmine.bsky.social's Kernel vol 5 launch party for joinreboot.org last night and boy oh boy was it a needle trip moment. Just when I was losing hope in finding the thread of moral imperative in the Bay Area tech scene! On to Open Sauce conf this weekend.
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Some positive, growth oriented thinking about AI in creative endeavors. jasmi.news/p/32-notes-o...
June 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Some positive, growth oriented thinking about AI in creative endeavors. jasmi.news/p/32-notes-o...
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Worth a read. A great list of short insights, thoughts, and observations on GenAI, creativity, and implications…
From @jasmine.bsky.social jasmi.news/p/32-notes-o...: 15. AI hallucinates, humans misremember. Yet neuroscience suggests that memory and imagination are one and the same. Per Demis Hassabis’s PhD thesis: amnesiacs make shoddy novelists."
notes on AI & writing
the models read because they cannot live
jasmi.news
June 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Worth a read. A great list of short insights, thoughts, and observations on GenAI, creativity, and implications…
Reposted by jasmine sun
From @jasmine.bsky.social jasmi.news/p/32-notes-o...: 15. AI hallucinates, humans misremember. Yet neuroscience suggests that memory and imagination are one and the same. Per Demis Hassabis’s PhD thesis: amnesiacs make shoddy novelists."
notes on AI & writing
the models read because they cannot live
jasmi.news
June 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
From @jasmine.bsky.social jasmi.news/p/32-notes-o...: 15. AI hallucinates, humans misremember. Yet neuroscience suggests that memory and imagination are one and the same. Per Demis Hassabis’s PhD thesis: amnesiacs make shoddy novelists."
I wanted to better understand (and complicate!) the “tech right,” so I interviewed an anonymous startup founder who supported Trump in 2024. He regrets it now.
I found our conversation fascinating 🧵
jasmi.news/p/fit-to-rule
I found our conversation fascinating 🧵
jasmi.news/p/fit-to-rule
June 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I wanted to better understand (and complicate!) the “tech right,” so I interviewed an anonymous startup founder who supported Trump in 2024. He regrets it now.
I found our conversation fascinating 🧵
jasmi.news/p/fit-to-rule
I found our conversation fascinating 🧵
jasmi.news/p/fit-to-rule
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"Most of us have designed our lives around using the objects and tools that other people made. It takes a change of mindset to go from 'I wish I had an app for that' to 'Why not build it myself?'"
Essay | Your Next Favorite App? The One You Make Yourself.
‘Vibe-coding’ with new AI tools makes it possible for just about anyone to create personalized apps—no programming required.
www.wsj.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"Most of us have designed our lives around using the objects and tools that other people made. It takes a change of mindset to go from 'I wish I had an app for that' to 'Why not build it myself?'"
chatgpt 4o's sycophancy & genocide grok were problems of human/social misalignment — not model misalignment. unfortunately companies are much more incentivized to solve the latter than the former
new essay on the hard problem of aligning AI:
jasmi.news/p/alignment
new essay on the hard problem of aligning AI:
jasmi.news/p/alignment
we have never been aligned
learning from 4o and white genocide Grok
jasmi.news
May 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
chatgpt 4o's sycophancy & genocide grok were problems of human/social misalignment — not model misalignment. unfortunately companies are much more incentivized to solve the latter than the former
new essay on the hard problem of aligning AI:
jasmi.news/p/alignment
new essay on the hard problem of aligning AI:
jasmi.news/p/alignment
very excited to be collaborating with Kevin on this book project!
Some news: I'm writing a book about AGI!
This has been a while in the making, very excited to front-burner it for a while. I think what's happening in AI today is the most important and exciting story in the world, bar none, and I can't imagine a richer topic to write hundreds of pages about.
This has been a while in the making, very excited to front-burner it for a while. I think what's happening in AI today is the most important and exciting story in the world, bar none, and I can't imagine a richer topic to write hundreds of pages about.
Why I'm Writing a Book About AGI
And how you can help
www.agichronicles.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
very excited to be collaborating with Kevin on this book project!
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“AI discovered wholly new proteins before it could count the ‘r’s in ‘strawberry’, which makes it neither vaporware nor a demigod but a secret third thing.” [jasmi.news]
🌻 agi (disambiguation)
will we know it when we see it?
jasmi.news
April 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“AI discovered wholly new proteins before it could count the ‘r’s in ‘strawberry’, which makes it neither vaporware nor a demigod but a secret third thing.” [jasmi.news]
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What if instead of The Terminator and The Matrix, we used Severance and South Park to think about AI?
Maybe just believing in AGI makes AGI exist.
Kill the wise one!
www.argmin.net
April 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
What if instead of The Terminator and The Matrix, we used Severance and South Park to think about AI?