The secret place AI can't see

The in between is where it happens.

It's less the meeting and more how am I getting to and from each of those meetings? And what am I thinking about in between? You know, it's like the ticks of the clock.

The computer understands the ticks, but human beings live in the moments between those ticks, in the duration that's not even acknowledged by the m... See more

None of this is to imply that human beings should repudiate the technologies that make us more efficient. We just have to recognize which needs greater quantity can meet, and which it cannot. For example, AI chatbots cannot meet the need for intimacy. LLMs cannot meet the need for creativity. AI-generated art cannot meet the need for aesthetic nour... See more

Imagine if instead of approaching our computer as a cold, mechanical piece of metal and glass that receives inputs and delivers outputs, we saw it as a relationship with the emergent, ineffable internet mystic that we’re collectively creating.

How might we approach that device differently?