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An AI assistant built with this understanding would enhance users' capacity to reflect and choose rather than just optimizing interaction time. An educational AI would focus on expanding students' capacity to think independently and seek truth, using its ability to rapidly improve test scores as a means to clear hurdles and free up time for deeper... See more

Instead of hiding the taste, what if we made it visible? What if tools had style? What if they guided you toward an aesthetic — not just in the output, but in the process itself? Not templates onto generic software like Squarespace or Webflow, but taste baked deep into the workflow: the colors, the rhythm, the worldview.

the way that the internet felt as a child exploring on the family computer. I was pleasantly surprised at how many people also yearned for a softer, more human internet.

If appetite, fashion, or—today—an algorithm dictates your ends, the hierarchy collapses into heteronomy (rule by others rather than self-rule).

Abdication works when designing a sign-up flow, but not when shaping the structure of human thought

In the other, AI becomes a partner in truth seeking. It will surface counterarguments, flag open questions, draw on insight far beyond any single mind, and prompt us to check the evidence and sources. Errors will be chipped away, and knowledge will grow. Our freedom to question everything will stay intact and even thrive.

The current iteration of AI already edits our emails, sorts our inboxes, and picks the next song we listen to. But convenience is just the start. Soon, the same technology could determine which ideas ever reach your mind — or form within it.

Technologists rarely ask whether they’re steering us toward futures worth wanting.