sentences to ponder about tokenmaxxing from Zac Hill and Nate Meyvis

Here's Zac Hill's excellent new substack, Manual Transmission, and here's Nate Meyvis' Bear blog. These are two of my favorite writers on the internet right now. Highly recommended.1 Both of them generally write about a world I am largely ignorant about—AI in some broad sense, Nate closer to the programming-level and Zac more in the big-picture deployment level—but usually seem much more widely applicable. Zac is longform, and Nate is shortform, but I find insights about politics, for instance, in many of their paragraphs. By chance, both of them wrote about tokenmaxxing this week. Here's Zac, in Goodhart's Law adjacent mode: Andy’s approach passes muster because it isn’t coming from a place of fear. He isn't afraid of being left behind. He isn't afraid of being replaced. He isn't afraid of being the guy who didn't see what was coming. He is a guy who runs fourteen pizza shops and got tired of jamming his business into software designed for online t-shirt vendors. So he sat down with…