Nishita

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

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 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.

The ancient Greeks had two words for "order."

The first was " taxis " – deliberately created order, imposed by central design. This is the root of the word "taxonomy," meaning the classifications we place upon the natural world.

The second was " cosmos " – spontaneous order, emerging from decentralized interactions. Cosmos surrounds us: in markets... See more

Susan Sontag’s “Notes on ‘Camp.

Words like taste are hard to pin down, perhaps because they describe a sensibility more than any particular quality, a particular thing

kind of creative life personal computers should enable; ARPANET's pioneers envisioned what kind of connected society networks should foster. They translated their philosophies into code.