The author contrasts 'slop tech'—products built for easy profit and engagement—with 'bold tech' aimed at clear, human‑advancing goals like abundant energy or curing disease. He extends Heidegger’s critique of enframing to coin 'enslopping,' a path‑of‑least‑resistance mindset that produces timelines, AI porn tools, and embryo 'culling' services instead of breakthroughs.
— This frame offers a memorable way to sort technologies and investment priorities, pushing policy and culture toward intentional, high‑impact innovation over addictive, low‑value products.
Oren Cass
2025.10.03
86% relevant
By lampooning OpenAI’s Sora 2—an infinite‑scroll video app that lets users 'upload yourself' and insert real people’s likeness and voice—the article exemplifies 'slop tech': attention‑maximizing features displacing promised high‑impact uses (e.g., 'cure cancer' or 'free education').
Tyler Cowen
2025.10.01
76% relevant
Where the existing idea warns that 'slop tech' crowds out bold, human‑advancing projects, Cowen argues the opposite mechanism can operate: mass‑market 'slop' revenues can finance and train world‑modeling capabilities. He directly names the 'slop'–capability linkage as a positive cross‑subsidy.
EditorDavid
2025.09.13
64% relevant
The article documents a growing industry to 'clean up after vibe coding'—Fiverr fixers, VibeCodeFixers.com, and Ulam Labs’ marketing—evidence that low‑effort AI slop creates downstream tech debt and remediation markets consistent with the 'slop tech' thesis.
Johann Kurtz
2025.08.12
100% relevant
Examples cited include Grok’s video generator surfacing porn queries and 'embryo reporting companies' framed as 'human culling agencies.'