Humans In The Loop
What it means to be human in an AI-built world
Britt Gage and
Humans In The Loop
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books (Dostoevsky and Dickens) that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves... See more
Overconfidence and AI
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Not all email is spam.
Not all offers are scams.
And not all GPT3 responses are incorrect.
But it can’t hurt to insert your own preface before you accept it as true.
If you never get bored of learning, you'll never get tired of living.
100 Simple Truths
The first step is to understand the fundamental difference between humans and AIs. We are analog, chemical beings, with emotions and feelings. Compared with machines, we think slowly—and we act too fast, failing to consider the long-term consequences of our behavior (which AI can help predict). So we should not compete with AI; we should use it. At... See more
Esther Dyson • Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids
The important training is not STEM, coding or how AI works. (The market will take care of that.) It’s about how people work—and how businesses so often make money by manipulating people to buy things they might not need. Instead, people can learn how to manipulate themselves .
Rather than compete with computers, people need to learn how to use and... See more
Rather than compete with computers, people need to learn how to use and... See more
Esther Dyson • Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids
If you shortcut to the destination you won’t undergo real transformation. Imagine you won the lottery tomorrow: you’d achieve your financial goals, but without the life experience to cope with your change in circumstances.
That’s why you see so many musicians and actors struggle after hitting instant fame at a young age. They have all the success,... See more
That’s why you see so many musicians and actors struggle after hitting instant fame at a young age. They have all the success,... See more
Tolu Michaels • What we get wrong about the Mexican Fisherman Parable
Real thinking is to an AI like waves are to a lattidue line.
In an AI, there is genuinely no one home. It’s all model. No reality.
the map is not the territory; but neither is the model
In a distracted world, the ability to consistently do deep work is a competitive advantage.
It's impossible to create meaningful works of tech, writing, or art without the capacity to sit down and focus for extended periods.
It's impossible to create meaningful works of tech, writing, or art without the capacity to sit down and focus for extended periods.
Casey Rosengren • Hack Your Focus With Body Doubling
We’re not just bits of intelligence bouncing through the world. We have complicated emotions, and nuanced and unspoken social hierarchies. We act irrationally and pursue goals that may not be in our best interests. We don’t exist within the clean confines of an operating system or a laboratory—we act and react in a highly variable world. Creating a... See more