Gary Smith
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Gary Smith
The Retreating Human: God of the Gaps Logic in AI Resistance
substack.com
“The problem with this move is not that it is wrong to notice gaps. Gaps are real and important. The problem is that it becomes a kind of motte-and-bailey: it defines “human” precisely as “whatever machines cannot do (yet).” That definition is, by construction, unfalsifiable. It is also unhelpful for guiding real-world decisions about governance, labor, or ethics.”
PSEUDO-PRODUCTIVITY The use of visible activity as the primary means of approximating actual productive effort.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to meaningful goals.
Dan S. Kennedy • No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoners Guide to Time Productivity and Sanity
Productivity is the efficiency with which we convert inputs into outputs. In other words, how good are we at making things?
Charles Wheelan • Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)
productivity means accomplishing what we intend to.
Chris Bailey • Hyperfocus: How to Work Less to Achieve More
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