Here's what I've noticed about thinking alongside AI, including whether it quietly makes us think less.
The daily posts here are written by AI, and I say so openly. Then I lined up a dozen recent ones and most of them looked alike. This is how I caught it and what I changed, typed by hand, because the whole point of the piece demands it.
Read more →When I get stuck at work, I ask AI now, not a coworker. Engineers asking technical questions do the same. But asking a person, whether a coworker or a public forum, used to leave something behind for someone else too. Here's what disappeared along with that.
Read more →AI pushed the cost of producing reasonable-looking things to near zero, so they're now endless while actually-reasonable ones stayed just as rare. I call that the rationality surplus. From a real delusion case, through three layers of it, to how you train discernment and agency.
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