Though I use it for certain things, I think the drain on our collective ability to think for ourselves is showing up more every day - and the dynamic of competition in the marketplace/social media/design etc. is pushing people to, yes, keep working- do more, not close the laptop at noon and enjoy real life.
Expanding to the widest boundary view, if we are to have a helpful longterm relationship to AI, we are already late in crafting guardrails, regulations, rules... not surprisingly economic drivers have led to a race when what we need - to honor the embodied, the real, ecology, eros, our relationship with AI, all of it - is to slow it down... and to talk about this more in general.
This piece nails so many things I've been feeling and thinking about my steadily expanding use of AI (mostly Claude) and screen time more generally. The Great Acceleration and the Great Dumbening are happening concurrently, in real time. Where does it end?
Reading this felt like hearing a neighbor's voice through a shared wall — we clearly know some of the same people (the Hübl and Patrick Connor worlds), and you've put words to something I've been circling from a different doorway entirely. Your three speeds especially: information synthesizing at light speed while knowing still moves at the speed of integration. That gap is the whole event we're inside, and you're right that the body is the one instrument that can read it. "Borrowed knowing that feels like earned knowing" is going to stay with me for a long time.
What moved me most is where you land — that the human portfolio concentrates into presence, discernment, love. I published something into the same current this morning, from the angle of what we lose when we mistake the hardware for the person. Different door, same room. I'm so glad to have found your work.
Though I use it for certain things, I think the drain on our collective ability to think for ourselves is showing up more every day - and the dynamic of competition in the marketplace/social media/design etc. is pushing people to, yes, keep working- do more, not close the laptop at noon and enjoy real life.
Expanding to the widest boundary view, if we are to have a helpful longterm relationship to AI, we are already late in crafting guardrails, regulations, rules... not surprisingly economic drivers have led to a race when what we need - to honor the embodied, the real, ecology, eros, our relationship with AI, all of it - is to slow it down... and to talk about this more in general.
We are so aligned on our thinking on much of this. I am hoping people will be prompted to microtrace their own experience with this!
This piece nails so many things I've been feeling and thinking about my steadily expanding use of AI (mostly Claude) and screen time more generally. The Great Acceleration and the Great Dumbening are happening concurrently, in real time. Where does it end?
Some spontaneous birth of a new creatura. Creansa.
Creansa?
Reading this felt like hearing a neighbor's voice through a shared wall — we clearly know some of the same people (the Hübl and Patrick Connor worlds), and you've put words to something I've been circling from a different doorway entirely. Your three speeds especially: information synthesizing at light speed while knowing still moves at the speed of integration. That gap is the whole event we're inside, and you're right that the body is the one instrument that can read it. "Borrowed knowing that feels like earned knowing" is going to stay with me for a long time.
What moved me most is where you land — that the human portfolio concentrates into presence, discernment, love. I published something into the same current this morning, from the angle of what we lose when we mistake the hardware for the person. Different door, same room. I'm so glad to have found your work.