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  "createdAt": "2025-09-29T21:31:00+01:00",
  "description": "Am I Not Gonna Make It, or is this all a weird flex calibrated by people on the other side of the planet?",
  "path": "/stream/high-agency",
  "publishedAt": "2025-09-29T21:31:00+01:00",
  "site": "at://did:plc:swxoj3wjlwodcqs5ipmvgnug/site.standard.publication/3mnv7gbn3czno",
  "tags": [
    "Internet",
    "AI"
  ],
  "textContent": "Here’s the latest in a series of posts I like to call “things on the internet that make charles panic a little bit”. It’s a lexicon of Silicon Valley Twitter dogwhistles that indicate whether someone is going to make it or not.NPCs start every morning with Starbucks and the Spotify algorithm. They’ve worked the same Big Tech job for the last 7 years, collecting a 5% annual raise and spending it on a surf trip to Hawaii. The NPC always votes Democrat but doesn’t know why. Hobbies include Netflix and “trying new restaurants.” Sometimes, they scroll the app Threads.The NPCs don’t know that AGI is coming. The NPCs will probably end up stuck in the permanent underclass. The NPCs go about their quiet lives, playing LinkedIn Games and watching Marvel movies, blissfully blind to the technological tsunami mounting behind them.Sometimes I worry that I’m going to wind up in the permanent underclass because I’m a low-agency decel NPC with zero taste. But then I wonder whether maybe some people are holding their iPhone 17 Pro Maxes a little bit too close to their faces and whether any of this matters.“are you high agency or an NPC” by Jasmine Sun",
  "title": "Jasmine Sun: are you high-agency",
  "updatedAt": "2025-10-01T22:50:57+01:00"
}