AI Phobia Is Just Fear That ‘Easier’ Equals ‘Cheating’
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AI Phobia Is Just Fear That ‘Easier’ Equals ‘Cheating’
Oliver Burkeman observes that when employment is insecure, “we must constantly demonstrate our usefulness through frenetic doing.”
Jenny Odell • Saving Time
We worry AI will replace writers. But have you seen most of what’s online? Half the internet is engagement farmers on LinkedIn selling you 5 steps to 10x your productivity by 6am.
You can see this mindset has infected everything:
• We join Twitter for the love of conversation—come out obsessed with likes.
• We pursue research for discovery—then get tr
... See moreSari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
The insincerity, the rampant performativity, the illusion of urgency, the obsession with constructing futures at the expense of the present – for better or worse, these are all things I associate with being a technologist. And when I speak to my technologist friends, most of them share the same inkling that something is amiss .
Far too many of us g... See more
Far too many of us g... See more
Rebecca • On being a technologist
It was from this uncertainty that a simple alternative emerged: using visible activity as a crude proxy for actual productivity. If you can see me in my office—or, if I’m remote, see my email replies and chat messages arriving regularly—then, at the very least, you know I’m doing something
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
