Cam Jones

Anyway, whether it’s trans activists or Israelis engaging in long-term self-harm, people using slogans to answer difficult questions are not doing themselves or anyone else any favours.

But the subtext is plain: a world built on networks is not one that can be governed by Enlightenment values. Rationality, equality, deliberation, these are ideals of the linear age. The network obeys different laws.

Here, the lesson I believe is not that we should resist AI, as Tyler rightly says, but that we should anchor its use in the irreducible tacit knowledge of human practitioners. The craftsman with decades of attention behind their choices, the nurse whose diagnostic hunch has been tempered by thousands of bodies and hours, these are not forms of... See more

But real collaboration isn’t about being nice.

It’s about being courageous.

It’s about saying:

“I don’t think this idea is working.”“I think we’re solving the wrong problem.”“Are we actually having the conversation we need to have?”

Collaboration, when it works, is:

Constructive tension

Trust that’s strong enough to handle a few sparks

Trust that’s... See more

Hassabis is not alone in sensing the disquiet. But unlike many in his field, he is willing to make it explicit, even if only obliquely. His remarks function less as a formal philosophical position and more as a provocation, a cue for broader reflection, not a full diagnosis. That intelligence without wisdom is just entropy with good PR . That an... See more

Automating "grunt work" seems smart. But aren't we climbing towards learned helplessness? #AutomationIrony #FutureOfWork #TechTruth

We keep climbing the stack, delegating more grunt work to our silicon minions while we ascend to ever-loftier perches of "strategic oversight." The promise is wider spans of control, higher-level thinking, liberation... See more

Principles of Calm TechnologyTM

I. Technology should require the smallest possible amount of attention

II. Technology should inform and create calm

III. Technology should make use of the periphery

IV. Technology should amplify the best of technology and the best of humanity

V. Technology can communicate, but doesn’t need to speak

VI. Technology should... See more