Cal Newport

This brings me to my concluding thoughts, though.

I don't like the way this announcement is being talked about.

And I think it's an indictment about the way we're talking about AI more generally, this should be narrow and exciting.

Like, Hey, new tools in math are really like improving what we're able to solve.

It should be like something that we say.

And most people are like, shut up, nerd.

I'm watching the NBA championships.

And that's that.

But instead you see all this chatter.

This has to be cast as some sort of signal that,

that a terribleness is brewing.

That somehow we have to take something as specific and bespoke as math tools and transform it into a source of digital ick.

Here is my plea.

Not everything about AI has to be placed in some sort of Manichean system of the people versus the machines where we have to evaluate every news release versus like, is this in favor of people or

triumphing or does this evidence that the machines will eventually take us all out?

This is a ridiculous dichotomy.

It's, it's, it's gladdy.

It's the Coliseum.

It's people online cheering on because it's gives them meaning in their life.

It's, it's cynical CEOs at these companies that like the ick and the despair and the anxiety of this sort of