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Multiple readings Our minds did not evolve for AI Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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human minds not evolved for AI

Our minds did not evolve for AI

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Frank Pasquale
““Effortful thinking is hard, and if we’re offered technological off-ramps, we’ll take them.. As cognitive delegation spreads, ‘the social environment that supports autonomous reasoning can weaken’” buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/our-minds-...” evidence ↗
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“For those who encountered a paywall last week, I've just republished my essay with The Verge on human evolution and the danger of AI as "cognitive hot dog" on my personal site. Same essay, slightly evolved headline, and includes animated graphics of two ver…”

Building & implementation

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How teams are shipping and applying it.

““Effortful thinking is hard, and if we’re offered technological off-ramps, we’ll take them.. As cognitive delegation spreads, ‘the social environment that supports autonomous reasoning can weaken’” buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/our-minds-...”

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Humans understand what AI cannot

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Benjamin Riley
“Perhaps we might accept there are some big words we use that inherently have something ineffable to them. Justice. Solidarity. Understanding. Consciousness. I have found Helen Keller’s discussion of her own cognition fascinating on this topic. buildcognitiv…” evidence ↗
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Benjamin Riley

“Perhaps we might accept there are some big words we use that inherently have something ineffable to them. Justice. Solidarity. Understanding. Consciousness. I have found Helen Keller’s discussion of her own cognition fascinating on this topic. buildcognitiv…”

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AI goes Office Space essay

AI goes Office Space

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Benjamin Riley
“Man this has been plaguing me. Groped at the issue here: buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/ai-goes-of...” evidence ↗
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Benjamin Riley

“Man this has been plaguing me. Groped at the issue here: buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/ai-goes-of...”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Katie (Kathryn) Conrad: Given how most people still don’t fully understand how large language models work, I feel like it makes sense to regulate who can use an AI agent.
Benjamin Riley: Man this has been plaguing me. Groped at the issue here: buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/ai-goes-of...
Katie (Kathryn) Conrad: Ps I brought up agents as an issue for institutional security & integrity at my U last summer. Personally, I think we should slow the roll on deployments & then as expertise builds in an institutio…
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5 experts · 20 posts · 20d ago
Benjamin Riley Colin Anthony Moser tweety fish Robin Z
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“what i'm seeing is a people talking about LLMs doing math, saying specifically that it's a very significant development, and also specifically that people who think they can't do math desperately n…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Anthony Moser: i'm hearing computers are able to do math now and this is supposed to be sufficiently impressive that i forget ai companies are fully part of the fascist project
tweety fish: Literally none of the people you were talking to about this said that or believe it, what the heck?
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