Tag: Brainrot
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You need to be the kind of person who gets off on attaining knowledge.
Garry Newman, creator of the sandbox game “Garry’s Mod” (Wikipedia) (Steam), answers a faq in How do I get into the Game Industry
There is some great discussion around Garry’s blog on Hacker News.
What the Skibidi?
When asked (relentlessly, I’m sure) whether he’d sue over Skibidi Toilet’s appearance in Fortnite, he explained that it uses assets associated with but not created for his game, and finished with:
“Plus I’m lazy af, he could be using a photo of me on the toilet and it wouldn’t outweigh how much I can’t be bothered” (Twitter)
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Grinding, repetitive friction built something no language model can download into you: muscle memory for excellence.
In his essay (ok, Substack) “The defense against slop and brainrot“, Paul Jun describes a writing exercise lifted from Hunter S. Thompson: He’d grind away through writer’s block, typing The Great Gatzby word-for-word until,
By the final page, something had shifted—I could sense how clean sentences snap into place, the way a pianist’s fingers know where middle C lives without looking.
He continues on this path, comparing cognitive workload to resistance training:
When friction disappears, so does a hidden form of conditioning. Consider what happens when you remove resistance from any training: your muscles atrophy. The same principle applies to mental capabilities. Every hard task you delegate is a rep you didn’t do, a pattern your neurons didn’t carve deeper.
His thesis is that a barely literate country To borrow from Chat: He’s not just writing—he’s dropping knowledge bombs. Highlights:
Anyone can look capable; fewer people can be capable.
When everyone else’s focus fragments, mine compounds.
If you can think well, AI becomes a multiplier. If you can’t, AI just amplifies your mistakes.
The people who skipped the fundamentals become dependent on tools they don’t understand, producing work they can’t evaluate, making decisions based on outputs they can’t verify.
Absolutely worth reading, and maybe transcribing, whenever you’re tempted to take the path of least resistance.