When to use AI or not: gym or work? friction or friction-less?
Bruce Schneier's gym v work criteria for AI use kinda dovetails with my view of friction v friction-less creation. To Schneier (and Lopatto) 'gym' is about effo...
Tag: thinking
Is AI homogenizing our thoughts. Or are we just being idiotically lazy?
I’ve been meaning to post on this since the article came out a month ago (see link below). Back then, this article did trigger a bunch of discussion. But ...
Will adding AI to note-taking apps make us better thinkers?
Casey Newton from The Verge has an interesting ‘state of note-taking apps’ article. Prompted by the arrival of generative AI, he looks back at his u...
An ancient memorization strategy and becoming a Mentat
I was an avid reader of Frank Herbert’s Dune series of novels. One interesting thread in the books was that at some point, long before the start of the fi...