Human Essence

Curation is the act of creating context. - Jacob Horne

Human advantage will be caring about other humans: “humans care about other humans and also not at all about machines”

His most striking prediction: “Who in this room would say with conviction, I’m sure I’ll be smarter than GPT5? Not a single person.

“We are training our brains to be in a constant state of hyper-alertness, always thinking about what could be happening somewhere else and feeling the urge to check in and see. While this kind of behavior was advantageous during earlier phases of our species’ evolution — it helped us avoid predators and find prey in times of scarcity, for example —... See more

The machines are learning to think. Soon they will think better than us, faster than us, without fatigue. They will fill our spreadsheets, respond to our emails, and complete our to-do lists. The work that defined human life for generations is ending. By the year 2030, the machines will be doing 90% of the work in 90% of the jobs. And we’re left... See more

“Technical and data skills that have been highly sought after for decades appear to be among the most exposed to advances in artificial intelligence.” They found that AI will replace 96% of a software engineer’s current skills.

What did these researchers find to be the most durable skills for the next era of work? The ones we’ve long derided as... See more

we’ve been trained since childhood to value the answer. school taught us that. the world graded us on it.

but real thinkers, dangerous thinkers, chase questions.

not to look smart. not to win arguments.

but to see differently.

to peel back the world & ask: why does this even look like this?

to ask things like:

• what assumptions are hiding in plain sight?


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