AI

The Industrial Revolution outsourced physical labor. The Information Age outsourced memory. The Cognitive Age is outsourcing thought.

When a skill becomes automatic, it stops being foundational.

My point is simply that thinking, real thinking, cannot be outsourced to a computer or a note-taking app. And to put an even finer point on it, I don’t believe thinking, as such, can even be significantly aided by technology.

This is the paradox of our time: the very tools designed to free us from labor are trapping us in an endless cycle of escalating work. As our productivity increases, our standards and expectations rise even faster, creating a psychological Jevons Paradox that threatens to consume our humanity in the pursuit of ever-greater output. We become victims... See more

He who controls the necklace shall rule.

LLMs will know everything you say, and be in perfect position to use that knowledge to talk you into almost anything.

As Mor Naaman’s work shows, most people won’t even know what hit them.

The tragedy of ChatGPT is not that people no longer write — the tragedy is that they no longer think. Writing forces you to organise your thoughts. To outline an argument. To evaluate your ideas. To present and debate a coherent and internally consistent line of thinking. Writing helps you to get your thoughts in order. No generative AI is going to... See more

There is a difference between generative UI vs. generated *state* to render in the UI. I'm hearing people jump to "generative UI" but I think this undervalues carefully designed UI with generated states. Consider the calendar case. We don't need an AI to figure out how to design the display of a calendar. We can design a really fantastic display, ... See more