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The danger isn't that AI makes us less intelligent. It's that it allows us to avoid the work through which intelligence develops.

The Week
5d ago

Same month that AI solved this incredibly difficult math problem, I saw someone use Chachi PT to book a haircut. So equivalent, no, I mean in terms of the actual economy, the actual impact of these things, uh like practically using these tools for something that people enjoy, that's not just spinning their wheels, that's not just optimizing endless things, that's actually uh generative and moving things forward.

1w ago

Those are never really feel the AGI moments for me, but this, uh, but I I've actually spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours in 3D modeling software, uh, mostly in Cinema 4D and Houdini, and it was really fun. I really enjoy making uh, uh, 3D renders and motion graphics. Uh, and it was also useful when I was making YouTube videos. Uh, but every step in building a scene uh requires you got to watch a YouTube tutorial. Then you got to look up how all the different functions work. And then ultimately you're tweaking settings in literally four dimensions because it's a 3D scene.

1w ago

right now we find ourselves more people than ever creating. More demand for content than ever, yet less support systems than ever. And there's this very acute pressure that every artist and creative person feels right now of like, I feel like I'm falling behind. I don't even know what to do, you know.

4w ago

Stripe sees AI productivity as an opportunity to build more rather than simply cut costs, including how its internal coding agents now generate thousands of pull requests each week.

4w ago

right now we find ourselves more people than ever creating. More demand for content than ever. Yet less support systems than ever. And there's this very acute pressure that every artist and creative person feels right now. Of like, I feel like I'm falling behind. I don't even know what to do.

4w ago

If you were to go back and look at the average productivity of the US worker over the past 90 years, you will not see a single technological innovation. You won't see air conditioning. You won't see cell phones or computers or the internet or Microsoft Office. You don't see it because it takes a long time for productivity to be absorbed into the workplace and used by employers.

4w ago

We've systematically removed everything that makes play what it is. The spontaneity, the freedom, the wonder, from all parts of adult life and replaced it with efficiency and achievement. And in doing so, we're losing the very survival skills that we need the most right now.

4w ago

More people than ever creating. More demand for content than ever, yet less support systems than ever. And there's this very acute pressure that every artist and creative person feels right now of like, I feel like I'm falling behind.

4w ago

You think your brain's made for thinking, but it's not. It's made for preventing you from having to think whenever possible because thinking is like energetically costly. And so left to your own devices, your brain goes for convenience, like doing things you've done before, not working too hard, all these things. So it's only if you block that proclivity for convenience that you can actually do hard things.

1mo ago

When we compare brain activity after movement versus after sitting, the differences are so striking. The brain after movement looks like one certainly far more ready to learn and to work, and yet somewhere along the way, we decided that sitting and staring in front of a computer screen for eight hours straight is the best way to work.

2mo ago

When we compare brain activity after movement versus after sitting, the differences are so striking. The brain after movement looks like one certainly far more ready to learn and to work, and yet somewhere along the way, we decide that sitting and staring in front of a computer screen for eight hours straight is the best way to work.

2mo ago

Very notable that the first major layoff from a major company just admits that the business is not healthy and doesn't blame it on AI. We have not seen a layoff of this scale that wasn't at least partially credited to like the productivity increases that we're seeing from AI.

2mo ago

Employees and executives, 86 percent of them, blame workplace failure on ineffective communication. And US businesses alone lose $1.2 trillion -- trillion dollars -- a year as a result of miscommunication. So this isn't just about being nice and diplomatic. Miscommunication is expensive.

2mo ago

if you give every clinician an AI partner that handles the documentation, form filling, evidence search, and routine follow up communication, you effectively add another pair of hands to every consult without hiring another doctor.

2mo ago

Over the course of sitting all day with no movement, people's mood plummets while their fatigue builds and builds. And that's because our muscles have a symbiotic relationship with our brains. They're in constant communication. Our biological need to contract muscle is more than just about physical health and metabolism. It's also foundational to mental and brain health.

2mo ago

Most people assume that creativity is a fixed trait — you either have it or you don't. But research suggests that creativity is less like a gift and more like a muscle: it can be developed, strengthened, and yes, sometimes exhausted.

3mo ago

Most people think about creativity as a gift — something you either have or you don't. But research suggests that creativity is less like a trait and more like a muscle: it can atrophy if you don't use it, and it can grow stronger with practice.

3mo ago

Psychologist Ap Dijksterhuis explores the hidden mental processes that lead to these moments of inspiration, and why breakthroughs often emerge when the mind is at rest.

3mo ago

Most people assume that creativity is a trait — you either have it or you don't. But research suggests that creativity is less like a fixed ability and more like a muscle: it can be strengthened with practice, and it can also atrophy when it goes unused.

3mo ago

Most people end up in their jobs through a combination of accident and inertia. They don't really think carefully about what they could do with their career. And yet your career is probably the biggest opportunity you have to do good in the world, if that's what you care about.

3mo ago

Will Rogers once said, 'Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.' He understood that good intentions and correct positioning aren't enough — you have to keep moving.

3mo ago

Will Durant spent his whole life worrying that he was a failure. He wrote 13 volumes of The Story of Civilization over 50 years, a project so vast it seems almost incomprehensible. And he was worried he was a failure.

3mo ago

What do the inventor of the periodic table, the novelist Isabel Allende, and the almost-creators of the iPhone have in common? Join author David Epstein and EconTalk's Russ Roberts to explore a counterintuitive idea: that boundaries, and not unlimited freedom, often make us more creative, productive, and fulfilled.

3mo ago

AI is making every little step of entrepreneurship slightly easier, like slightly easier to incorporate, slightly easier to create a contract or to hire somebody, slightly easier to create an ad, and then you add all of that together.

4mo ago

There's something kind of comically tragic about the idea that these tools that were meant to lighten our loads seem to be doing the opposite for some.

5mo ago

You always have the power to have no opinion. Things are not asking to be judged by you. Don't turn this into something. The fewer opinions you have, the fewer judgments you make, the more you're able to just leave things as they are, the happier you will be, the more productive you will be, the more focused you will be, and the easier you will be to get along with.

5mo ago

As manufacturing gets cheaper like the tools that you use, the cars that you drive, the washing machine in your home, uh the tires on your cars, uh all these different things get better, not just cheaper, but actually unlock new capabilities and new things that people people enjoy.

5mo ago

You think you're taking revenge bedtime by staying up and scrolling your phone or watching TV or or even reading, which is isn't is hardly a sin. But by staying up late, you are making it harder to get up early.

6mo ago

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