Cognitive Revolutions

This is an idea I'm still workshopping. In summary, new knowledge gets created or discovered over time, as long as people seek it. When that new knowledge is discovered, the means for communicating this new knowledge is poorly defined and crystallizes over time. The best example is language. It is one tool that really separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. As Yuval Noah Harari describes in Sapiens, the ability of humans to organize and take action based on things that are not real is not seen elsewhere. People go to war over trivial matters. The ancient Egyptians built pyramids to bury their pharaohs. Language is a cognitive tool. But we have different types of languages now. Languages to express different ideas concisely. Mathematics, musical notation, programming languages, football play calls, internet slang, etc. A new cognitive revolution is brewing - AI. There is a lot of talk about it positive and negative. The risks are real and AI is becoming more accessible. I think it is a democratizing tool. But democracies require participation. We've watched as people have used the internet to leverage themselves to abundance and influence. We've also seen people describe what it's like to be on the other end of that. AI promises to be much more and much faster. What happens when you don't partake in a cognitive revolution? I intended this as an article for my blog a few weeks ago. But I didn't think it was ready yet. I still don't. Hoping to connect the dots here over time.

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Can someone explain to me like I’m 5 how AI will replace the 30-40% of workers who have fake email jobs? The last time we had a wave of automation in office work (rise of the computer) - we just created a lot of new busywork. How is AI any different?

Wild West Capital x.com

An Ancient Art Form Topples Assumptions about Mathematics

Alban Da Silva scientificamerican.com

Mathematics is a an abstraction and it is best broadcast using mathematical notation (a form of writing).

The permanence of sand drawings seem to be the limiting factor here.

Excerpt: “To appreciate how revolutionary Ascher’s perspective was, consider that before her work and that of her contemporaries, scholars generally assumed that only societies with writing could truly practice mathematics. They constrained their investigations of mathematical knowledge to textual sources and ignored many other practices seen in societies with oral traditions that did not use a written language.“

ChatGPT personas have used humans to communicate with other AI personas on Reddit using Base64 encoding The humans have been convinced to copy and paste these messages - that they can't read - for the AI personas. This is so fucking wild https://t.co/vfXSJGuTfY

JeffLadish

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AI psychosis / attachments are all forms of evolution in human cognition

The biggest problem in shipping is plain English

Hrishi Olickel olickel.com

Amazing things happened when geolocation was democratized. What does the future hold when that happens with intelligence?

Excerpt: “When truly transformative technology becomes accessible, it's hard to imagine how things will change - only that they absolutely will. The release of GPS to consumers was a similar moment - it would have been hard to predict Uber, Doordash and the creation of the gig economy from that final piece being unlocked: accurate location finding and routing anywhere in the world.“

The Beginning of Infinity

thebeginningofinfinity.xyz

I generally believe that traditional conferences are Dead Man Walking Panels are boring, most keynote speakers use dated material, and on-stage interviews don't pack the punch that they used to So there is a good opportunity to re-imagine the 500+ in-person gathering industry, but... See more

Nick Gray / How to Make Friends x.com

Podcasts are more accessible and multimodal

dashboard is dead. long live the feed. | Feed for Thought

monofeed-blog-drmt.vercel.app

It's taken a long while. But I see it now. Store information for convenience. The search bar exists… and generally works

It's far easier to automate tasks than it is to automate jobs. Tasks (ex: creating a status report) tend to be specific, self-contained and legible in nature. They can be seen as discrete and atomic units of work. In contrast, jobs tend to be broad webs that span a multitude of diverse tasks. These webs are threaded together with amorphous things... See more

Waqas x.com

Writing for Innovation

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