Lumas Muk Diesner
Change is imminent.
We've drifted off course. Innovation used to come before monetization—now it's the reverse. I grew up homeschooled going back and forth between LA and suburban Frankfurt.
Growing up, Google was my primary source of education. As I've learned alongside it, I've watched it change, prioritizing profit over utility, convenience over quality.
The internet's status quo is Google. We can do better.
This is a pattern across tech. Users get neglected in favor of shareholders. And the most advanced technology is used to maximize engagement and generate content that keeps us engaged.
We have opportunities that could genuinely improve the ways we learn, connect, and create. We often opt to use these abilities against ourselves instead.
We've optimized for convenience over consequence.
I think we can change this. We're still early enough with AI (or even SI), with modern information networks, with how the internet works. The infrastructure is good. The incentives are broken. That's fixable.
I am grateful to be American, to be free under democracy and to be part of the most exciting point of modern times.
What I'm building connects to all of this, creating new ways to access and store information. Keeping the dead internet theory a theory has never been more important.
We need to keep our focus on what's actually important, not what keeps half your attention. I'll leave it at this for now, as I want to be on the safe side.
At 17, I don't have credentials to point to, but I have an realistic approach and I know what I'm working on makes sense.
If this resonates, reach out. Things are moving.