David Brooks

And two people I really have come to like, like Noah Smith or Damon Linker, Andrew Sullivan, people like that.

My views on AI are partly colored by the fact that I just so enjoy it.

I've had so many good conversations with Claude over the last couple months.

I had one yesterday.

I'm writing about resentment, and it introduced me to a thinker I'd never— I prompt it with, who are the major lines of thought on this subject?

And then it gives me them, and I say, please summarize these people's thoughts.

I never ask it to think for itself.

I just want it to think, tell me what other people have been thinking.

And then I ask, what books should I be reading to really understand?

And then it gives me the books.

And I learn so much.

I learn about philosophers I've never heard of.

I learn lines of thought I've never heard of.

It's really good at drawing from 3,000 years of intellectual history and saying, you should look at this.

This person is connected to that person, and that person is connected to this.

And it's fantastic.

My main concern is,

is that let's say 20% of humanity will have what they call the high need for cognition.

They like to think.

And if you're on a train or a bus and you look over and somebody's doing a really hard puzzle, that person likes to think.