On speaking to AI

that people are engaging in what Samuel Taylor Coleridge called "The Willing Suspension of Disbelief." This concept describes a participatory (rather than passive) cognitive or imaginative stance that we willingly and strategically adopt towards various media—be it AI, novels, movies, or even wrestling matches.

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I wrote a Python script a few weeks ago to get an AI agent to play a coach and another AI agent to play a coachee. The way they bounced off one another was a great insight on what refinements would enable AI to facilitate more resonant, higher fidelity coaching as opposed to a conversation driven by relevance and people's preferences.