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The Knife Knew How to Teach Us

The Knife Knew How to Teach Us

The Knife Knew How to Teach Us Part II of III The first time a knife cut you, you learned almost everything you needed to know about knives. You reached wrong, or pressed too hard, or let your attention drift, and the blade opened your skin. It hurt. It bled. And...
40 Years-One Sentence

40 Years-One Sentence

Forty Years to a Sentence Notes from the Edge “So what are we getting done today?” I didn’t quite know how to tell the person at the hair salon what it is that I want. Because it’s a feel, a look. A sense. Not a “style.” And then we...
The ABCs We Are Missing

The ABCs We Are Missing

A Question to Ask Yourself:Which mind just took the wheel — and is that the one I actually want driving right now? Get In Touch The ABCs That We Are Missing What if you hadn’t learned your ABCs as a child, and you couldn’t read today? In a quieter way,...
Quiet Erosion

Quiet Erosion

Quiet Erosion What Heavy Chatbot Use Might Be Doing to the People Who Look Fine Researchers at MIT Media Lab and OpenAI have now documented what many of us have been noticing in our own lives and in the people around us. Heavy daily use of AI chatbots correlates with...
Velocity Dissonance

Velocity Dissonance

Velocity Dissonance When machines decide faster than we can think. You’ve felt this even if you haven’t named it. The moment when an algorithm has already made a decision before you knew there was a decision to make. The loan application denied by a system...