Superagency

This is why embracing a what-could-possibly-go-right mindset is so necessary for creating positive change. Thinking in terms of best possible outcomes doesn’t mean you ignore potential negative outcomes. It means you avoid those outcomes by envisioning the future you want and steering toward it.

For me, LinkedIn was always about using networks to share and discover information in new ways, by using identity to increase trust.

From stone tools to smartphones, this virtuous cycle of innovation expands and compounds what it means to be human over time.

Public identity equates to discoverability, trustworthiness, influence, power, agency. It’s a form of social capital—and sometimes financial capital—that can help you move more productively through the world.

A techno-humanist compass actively aims to point us toward paths in which the technologies we create broadly augment and amplify individual and collective agency.

What this means, in part, is that LLMs never know a fact or understand a concept in the way that we do. Instead, every time you prompt an LLM with a question, or ask it to take some action, you are simply asking it to make a prediction about what tokens are most likely to follow the tokens that comprise your prompt in a contextually relevant way. A

Every new technology we’ve invented—from language, to books, to the mobile phone—has defined, redefined, deepened, and expanded what it means to be human.

Fifteenth-century doom-mongers argued that the printing press would dramatically destabilize society by enabling heresy and misinformation, and by undermining the authority of the clergy and scholars.

new technologies have regularly sparked visions of impending dehumanization and societal collapse.