Cal Newport

I couldn't put my finger on why AI generated emails and messages just feel inhuman.

Like we can now see through it and know that it did not come from a human.

So we just feel jaded when we read AI-generated communication.

I will be crediting you when I say the sacredness of speech.

Yeah, I mean, I'm there, Alex.

There's something we should think about this.

It's an ethical question.

Like here's how I end it.

I'm going to read the final paragraph of my essay here.

I said, this is all to say before we blindly embrace whatever AI product Sam Altman or Dario Amadei declares to be inevitable, we still have a lot of work to do in figuring out what we're willing to accept.

We have to be asking these questions.

This is my philosophy of techno-selectionism.

We don't just have to take whatever technology comes our way and just try to survive the waves.

We have agency here, and we can ask hard questions.

We can make hard decisions.

We can change our usage patterns.

We can push back.

We can change our mind after we adopt the technology and cut back on how we use it.

We have control, and this is the case with LLMs as well.

All right, let's move on from AI.