We agree with every single one of these!!

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This suggests to me that the insert was produced by some other entity that makes deals for their stuff to be included in newspapers? I can't wait for the part where we find out what the hell happened.
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But our baseline mission is to keep skills alive, and to celebrate skills themselves as expressions of humanity. We want to maintain human capacity through skill preservation. And that's what I want of my writing students. I want them to develop their own ideas, so they can maintain that capacity.

The tools we preserve, which made metal type, likewise erased older skills while creating newer ones. The printing revolution itself created and erased skills in that same way. AI is the direct lineal descendant of metal type and the print shop. This is not an easy story with clear villains.

AI tools are complicated. They are not uniform in their character. But at this moment as we incorporate them into our work, we risk injuring ourselves when we misunderstand what we are, what skills are, and what the AI is doing for and to us. I am going to continue to think on this.

A skill is mapped physically in the brain. The brain IS the network of skill maps you have embedded in it. Every skill that has ever existed is part of the great corpus of ways in which we have been human. We are a skills platform, beings made of skills. Every time we de-skill, we lose something.

I (Fritz Swanson) am sharing this from this account because we are an organization dedicated to skill preservation. We don't preserve objects alone, but instead we wrap the objects in what Scott Russell Sanders called the "double inheritance" of a tool, it's "cloud of knowing".