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21/ this link is to one of the better articles I’ve read that covers some very useful perspectives re how generative AI interacts with and changes our brains.
www.newscientist.com/article/2501...
www.newscientist.com/article/2501...
AI may blunt our thinking skills – here’s what you can do about it
There is growing evidence that our reliance on generative AI tools is reducing our ability to think clearly and critically, but it doesn’t have to be that way
www.newscientist.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
21/ this link is to one of the better articles I’ve read that covers some very useful perspectives re how generative AI interacts with and changes our brains.
www.newscientist.com/article/2501...
www.newscientist.com/article/2501...
20/quite long. But I will say insight into these mechanisms has been for me incredibly helpful to frame the challenges, ask the right questions, and identify effective ways to still move forward.
* This internal individual change is a whole huge topic for another time. For now,
* This internal individual change is a whole huge topic for another time. For now,
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
20/quite long. But I will say insight into these mechanisms has been for me incredibly helpful to frame the challenges, ask the right questions, and identify effective ways to still move forward.
* This internal individual change is a whole huge topic for another time. For now,
* This internal individual change is a whole huge topic for another time. For now,
19/ also to still engage with people. BUT those strategies and techniques must be different than in the past, and must be tuned to the “speed” of changes that we now constantly encounter (which is higher than our rate limit).
I won’t go into those strategies here as this is
I won’t go into those strategies here as this is
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
19/ also to still engage with people. BUT those strategies and techniques must be different than in the past, and must be tuned to the “speed” of changes that we now constantly encounter (which is higher than our rate limit).
I won’t go into those strategies here as this is
I won’t go into those strategies here as this is
18/ cooperation, and our ability to coordinate and our ability to be community struggles to keep up too.
Understanding all of this means we can develop very specific and concrete strategies and techniques to both consolidate our understanding of the changes in the world, and
Understanding all of this means we can develop very specific and concrete strategies and techniques to both consolidate our understanding of the changes in the world, and
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
18/ cooperation, and our ability to coordinate and our ability to be community struggles to keep up too.
Understanding all of this means we can develop very specific and concrete strategies and techniques to both consolidate our understanding of the changes in the world, and
Understanding all of this means we can develop very specific and concrete strategies and techniques to both consolidate our understanding of the changes in the world, and
17/ incorporate new tools, new techniques, and new goals that were impossible to even conceive into our experiences of ourselves.*
All of this change is too rapidly for our words to form, and thus for our words to maintain accurate function as communication.
Which means our
All of this change is too rapidly for our words to form, and thus for our words to maintain accurate function as communication.
Which means our
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
17/ incorporate new tools, new techniques, and new goals that were impossible to even conceive into our experiences of ourselves.*
All of this change is too rapidly for our words to form, and thus for our words to maintain accurate function as communication.
Which means our
All of this change is too rapidly for our words to form, and thus for our words to maintain accurate function as communication.
Which means our
16/ normal-every-day-people, all of this has huge implications for how we try to continue to exist together, in “a world” that is changing too rapidly.
“The world” includes external things happening around us, and also how we ourselves individual rapidly change too as we
“The world” includes external things happening around us, and also how we ourselves individual rapidly change too as we
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
16/ normal-every-day-people, all of this has huge implications for how we try to continue to exist together, in “a world” that is changing too rapidly.
“The world” includes external things happening around us, and also how we ourselves individual rapidly change too as we
“The world” includes external things happening around us, and also how we ourselves individual rapidly change too as we
15/ same words leads to stress and to breakdowns in the ways people engage with each other.
All of this has huge implications around AI research and development, and what the fundamental nature of what many of the teams are building even is at all.
But more immediately, for
All of this has huge implications around AI research and development, and what the fundamental nature of what many of the teams are building even is at all.
But more immediately, for
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
15/ same words leads to stress and to breakdowns in the ways people engage with each other.
All of this has huge implications around AI research and development, and what the fundamental nature of what many of the teams are building even is at all.
But more immediately, for
All of this has huge implications around AI research and development, and what the fundamental nature of what many of the teams are building even is at all.
But more immediately, for
14/ communication about reality between people breaks down because the words can’t form to consensus, and without consensus cannot function to transfer actual underlying information between people.
This breakdown in our ability to transfer information despite trying to use the
This breakdown in our ability to transfer information despite trying to use the
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
14/ communication about reality between people breaks down because the words can’t form to consensus, and without consensus cannot function to transfer actual underlying information between people.
This breakdown in our ability to transfer information despite trying to use the
This breakdown in our ability to transfer information despite trying to use the
13/ enough. Definitions of words slide and creep and contradict.
We see this happen often, most recently with terms like AGI, but it happens across all of our lives where suddenly words are used to attempt to mean even opposite things in the same context.
And thus
We see this happen often, most recently with terms like AGI, but it happens across all of our lives where suddenly words are used to attempt to mean even opposite things in the same context.
And thus
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
13/ enough. Definitions of words slide and creep and contradict.
We see this happen often, most recently with terms like AGI, but it happens across all of our lives where suddenly words are used to attempt to mean even opposite things in the same context.
And thus
We see this happen often, most recently with terms like AGI, but it happens across all of our lives where suddenly words are used to attempt to mean even opposite things in the same context.
And thus
12/ context is changing (when you incorporate new things into your private self), at a rate faster than you can run the loop, then the words for all of the very real things that exist, and real interactions that you sense while engaging with those very real things, cannot form fast
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
12/ context is changing (when you incorporate new things into your private self), at a rate faster than you can run the loop, then the words for all of the very real things that exist, and real interactions that you sense while engaging with those very real things, cannot form fast
11/ to compress the sense of slowly introduced new things -> into new words -> into new communicated language. Any by running that loop together you can continue to function together and perhaps even thrive.
But if your background context is changing, and/or your own internal
But if your background context is changing, and/or your own internal
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
11/ to compress the sense of slowly introduced new things -> into new words -> into new communicated language. Any by running that loop together you can continue to function together and perhaps even thrive.
But if your background context is changing, and/or your own internal
But if your background context is changing, and/or your own internal
10/ town, with the same tools, doing the same things, as your parents and grandparents.
And say the rate of new things entering into that context happens at a rate slower than the cap humans have, then as individuals and as a community you can together adjust by running the loop
And say the rate of new things entering into that context happens at a rate slower than the cap humans have, then as individuals and as a community you can together adjust by running the loop
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
10/ town, with the same tools, doing the same things, as your parents and grandparents.
And say the rate of new things entering into that context happens at a rate slower than the cap humans have, then as individuals and as a community you can together adjust by running the loop
And say the rate of new things entering into that context happens at a rate slower than the cap humans have, then as individuals and as a community you can together adjust by running the loop
9/ regulated reality about humans is much more functional when the rate of new things matches the rate humans can run that sensing, compression, transfer loop within a community.
For example if you are in the a context that hasn’t changed rapidly - say you live in the same
For example if you are in the a context that hasn’t changed rapidly - say you live in the same
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
9/ regulated reality about humans is much more functional when the rate of new things matches the rate humans can run that sensing, compression, transfer loop within a community.
For example if you are in the a context that hasn’t changed rapidly - say you live in the same
For example if you are in the a context that hasn’t changed rapidly - say you live in the same
8/ limited differently! More can be created, can form, and can happen, at a much much faster, or a much much slower, rate than humans are capped at.
This difference between humans and our surrounding reality helps us understand some important things.
This inherent physics
This difference between humans and our surrounding reality helps us understand some important things.
This inherent physics
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
8/ limited differently! More can be created, can form, and can happen, at a much much faster, or a much much slower, rate than humans are capped at.
This difference between humans and our surrounding reality helps us understand some important things.
This inherent physics
This difference between humans and our surrounding reality helps us understand some important things.
This inherent physics
7/ already have, so much. And then we can only interact with other people, so much.
We humans are regulated and rate limited by the strictly-enforced physics of our very biology.
But reality around us, and the new things that come into being, or that we discover, are rate
We humans are regulated and rate limited by the strictly-enforced physics of our very biology.
But reality around us, and the new things that come into being, or that we discover, are rate
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
7/ already have, so much. And then we can only interact with other people, so much.
We humans are regulated and rate limited by the strictly-enforced physics of our very biology.
But reality around us, and the new things that come into being, or that we discover, are rate
We humans are regulated and rate limited by the strictly-enforced physics of our very biology.
But reality around us, and the new things that come into being, or that we discover, are rate
6/ takes time and space and energy.
A key insight here is that humans individually and collectively are capped in how fast we can do this.
In a given day we can only interact so much, consolidate thoughts so much, try to assign words and relate those words to other ideas we
A key insight here is that humans individually and collectively are capped in how fast we can do this.
In a given day we can only interact so much, consolidate thoughts so much, try to assign words and relate those words to other ideas we
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
6/ takes time and space and energy.
A key insight here is that humans individually and collectively are capped in how fast we can do this.
In a given day we can only interact so much, consolidate thoughts so much, try to assign words and relate those words to other ideas we
A key insight here is that humans individually and collectively are capped in how fast we can do this.
In a given day we can only interact so much, consolidate thoughts so much, try to assign words and relate those words to other ideas we
5/ entirely different set of interactions with other humans to try to come to consensus on how to reconcile and compress our different individual senses that we independently developed into a shared sense that we can transfer between each other via words in language.
That also
That also
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
5/ entirely different set of interactions with other humans to try to come to consensus on how to reconcile and compress our different individual senses that we independently developed into a shared sense that we can transfer between each other via words in language.
That also
That also
4/ things to start.
As humans we must have multiple sessions of sensing via interacting before we can even form the contours of an idea of the thing in our minds.
This takes time and space and consumes energy.
And only after all this individual sensing can we then have an
As humans we must have multiple sessions of sensing via interacting before we can even form the contours of an idea of the thing in our minds.
This takes time and space and consumes energy.
And only after all this individual sensing can we then have an
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
4/ things to start.
As humans we must have multiple sessions of sensing via interacting before we can even form the contours of an idea of the thing in our minds.
This takes time and space and consumes energy.
And only after all this individual sensing can we then have an
As humans we must have multiple sessions of sensing via interacting before we can even form the contours of an idea of the thing in our minds.
This takes time and space and consumes energy.
And only after all this individual sensing can we then have an
3/ part of, what I sense in a way that can be accurately or consistently expressed in my own mind by words.
And the same is true for other people! Which means people together cannot communicate by language with each other in any consistent or really coherent way about the new
And the same is true for other people! Which means people together cannot communicate by language with each other in any consistent or really coherent way about the new
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
3/ part of, what I sense in a way that can be accurately or consistently expressed in my own mind by words.
And the same is true for other people! Which means people together cannot communicate by language with each other in any consistent or really coherent way about the new
And the same is true for other people! Which means people together cannot communicate by language with each other in any consistent or really coherent way about the new
2/ comprise the state of the thing) , and the ways these new things interact with other previously existing things (behavior, usage, energy transfer, and transformation of form).
The new thing really exists, I can sense it, but I cannot simply organize and compress all, or even
The new thing really exists, I can sense it, but I cannot simply organize and compress all, or even
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
2/ comprise the state of the thing) , and the ways these new things interact with other previously existing things (behavior, usage, energy transfer, and transformation of form).
The new thing really exists, I can sense it, but I cannot simply organize and compress all, or even
The new thing really exists, I can sense it, but I cannot simply organize and compress all, or even
5/prioritize the continued existence of multiple generations of human beings which would fulfill one very important dimension of robust “safety.”
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
5/prioritize the continued existence of multiple generations of human beings which would fulfill one very important dimension of robust “safety.”
4/the intuition is correct, then it also means there is a future path where those powerful systems will have inherent properties that implicitly (not explicitly) “force” them to
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
4/the intuition is correct, then it also means there is a future path where those powerful systems will have inherent properties that implicitly (not explicitly) “force” them to
3/the intuition carries with it very specific implications that pave the way to iterate directly into exceptionally more performant systems, even compared to the large amount of progress already made today.
Importantly, if
Importantly, if
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
3/the intuition carries with it very specific implications that pave the way to iterate directly into exceptionally more performant systems, even compared to the large amount of progress already made today.
Importantly, if
Importantly, if
2/inputs to the systems and also the processing of those inputs against the systems.
For me this seems both intuitive and obvious, and I suspect other people will come around to this view and modify their approaches over time.
If I am right,
For me this seems both intuitive and obvious, and I suspect other people will come around to this view and modify their approaches over time.
If I am right,
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
2/inputs to the systems and also the processing of those inputs against the systems.
For me this seems both intuitive and obvious, and I suspect other people will come around to this view and modify their approaches over time.
If I am right,
For me this seems both intuitive and obvious, and I suspect other people will come around to this view and modify their approaches over time.
If I am right,