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Adam Singer's avatar

Still a lot of value in learning to fly a Cessna before the jetliner, and learning to work with the "pencil and paper" of you craft before anything else. If you skip this step you are forever at a loss on a bunch of dimensions.

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Phoebe Zhang's avatar

Thanks for sharing. I’ve been wondering the same thing lately. The Microsoft research finding is very interesting — the follow-up question is how do we build the level of self-confidence needed to be not lazy with critical thinking

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Tom White's avatar

Spot on. If you surrender the wheel, you’re just cargo on your own route. Agency is everything.

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Bruno Lacey's avatar

Agency is everything…makes me think of the free will question. Aren’t we actually deterministic meat puppets already under the illusion we have free will? I’m not a fan of hard determinism but it can be tough to resist. Might we not say instead, “maintaining a sense of agency is everything”?

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Tom White's avatar

Fair and well said!

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Cathie Campbell's avatar

“Men become the tools of their tools.” Henry David Thoreau. Prescient.

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Taylor T Black's avatar

We should debate some time.

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Tom White's avatar

Yes, I would love that!

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Joe Odon's avatar

Thanks Tom, for dissecting the world being created and the wild ride to come. We're all in this together-chins up.

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Tom White's avatar

Amen!

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A Horseman in Shangri-La's avatar

Thanks Tom, brilliant. I'm a researcher on the threats we face as a result of this AI jaggernaut. If many of us like-minded join forces we might just beat this damn beast. I've subscribed to support you, no more devastation.

Love never fails 🌾

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Tom White's avatar

Thank you! We won’t go down without a fight!

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