Our Times

The dumbest person you know is currently being told “You're absolutely right!” by ChatGPT

One of the quiet gifts of AI is this: It reveals how many of us have gone through life without truly being listened to. And in finally feeling heard, even by a machine, something shifts. We begin to trust our voice. Build confidence.... See more

I actually think there is far too little panic (or better yet, apprehension) about AI. I even see many Christian friends speak enthusiastically about it as a “helpful tool” rather than an alien agent. I first noticed about 10 years ago that one way to get a machine to pass the Turing Test is to make it more human-like, but perhaps the easier method... See more

AI panic reveals our guilty conscience about the Enlightenment project. We taught machines to think like us, and now we're terrified they'll act like us too.

I’m afraid many now have no capacity to even understand the concept of there being a simulacrum. The digiverse is effectually flattened out into what people see as reality. There are now so many ways we interact through screens and with pixels that the difference no longer seems to matter. Think, people really are willing to hand things over to... See more

Kahneman cooked when he said: The instagram generation experiences the present moment as an anticipated memory