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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

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.

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

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.

Aristotle begins with a simple question: what makes a thing perform its function well? A knife is good when it cuts well; he contends that a human is good when he or she exercises reason well. This is part of our nature and it is what makes us distinctive as humans. Hence, for Aristotle, human excellence is reason-guided activity of the soul in... See more

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

knowledge should live outside authority:

Rather than choosing between thinking and doing, profit and purpose, or extremes of hope and despair, he fused sustained inquiry with ambitious execution—building institutions that embodied his philosophical convictions.