Ezra Klein
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And it's often hard because it's completely wrong, but not because it's narrowly wrong, right? ChatGPT will never tell you that the problem with what you're trying to do is that you're just trying to do the wrong thing. It'll never tell you if you tell it to write a first draft, that's the wrong direction for this draft. Some part of you has to know it.
And it's often hard because it's completely wrong, but not because it's narrowly wrong, right? ChatGPT will never tell you that the problem with what you're trying to do is that you're just trying to do the wrong thing. It'll never tell you if you tell it to write a first draft, that's the wrong direction for this draft. Some part of you has to know it.
And often the problem is you just haven't done enough reporting, haven't done enough research. And ChatGPT can't tell you that either.
And often the problem is you just haven't done enough reporting, haven't done enough research. And ChatGPT can't tell you that either.
And often the problem is you just haven't done enough reporting, haven't done enough research. And ChatGPT can't tell you that either.
And my worry for my kids, my worry for society is creating technologies that make it incredibly alluring to automate the part of creation that is most difficult, most laborious, and most likely to lead to genuine insight and the sort of sharpening of your own mental acuity. I mean, we better fucking hope the AIs can autonomously make innovations because we're going to stop.
And my worry for my kids, my worry for society is creating technologies that make it incredibly alluring to automate the part of creation that is most difficult, most laborious, and most likely to lead to genuine insight and the sort of sharpening of your own mental acuity. I mean, we better fucking hope the AIs can autonomously make innovations because we're going to stop.
And my worry for my kids, my worry for society is creating technologies that make it incredibly alluring to automate the part of creation that is most difficult, most laborious, and most likely to lead to genuine insight and the sort of sharpening of your own mental acuity. I mean, we better fucking hope the AIs can autonomously make innovations because we're going to stop.
I really worry we're going to stop being able to.
I really worry we're going to stop being able to.
I really worry we're going to stop being able to.
I'm just distinctly the quality of my thoughts. Even the same content. I don't read things anymore as much as I can on like a screen. I print everything out and I sit in a table and I read it. I can read it on my iPad. I can read it on my laptop. I print it all out because my attention is different.
I'm just distinctly the quality of my thoughts. Even the same content. I don't read things anymore as much as I can on like a screen. I print everything out and I sit in a table and I read it. I can read it on my iPad. I can read it on my laptop. I print it all out because my attention is different.
I'm just distinctly the quality of my thoughts. Even the same content. I don't read things anymore as much as I can on like a screen. I print everything out and I sit in a table and I read it. I can read it on my iPad. I can read it on my laptop. I print it all out because my attention is different.
I'm a less temperamentally honest person than Derek by a lot, actually. And I would usually give a pretty similar answer to this question that Derek gave, which is technological advancement, right? We live in an age of marvels. I guess I'll say from the realist perspective that we live in a more liquid moment than many.
I'm a less temperamentally honest person than Derek by a lot, actually. And I would usually give a pretty similar answer to this question that Derek gave, which is technological advancement, right? We live in an age of marvels. I guess I'll say from the realist perspective that we live in a more liquid moment than many.
I'm a less temperamentally honest person than Derek by a lot, actually. And I would usually give a pretty similar answer to this question that Derek gave, which is technological advancement, right? We live in an age of marvels. I guess I'll say from the realist perspective that we live in a more liquid moment than many.
You know, if one of the advantages of the 90s of, you know, much of the life that I have grown up in is that much of the structure of technology of global governance was fairly stable. We could sort of like look at it and there were certain things. not certainties, but fairly reliable guardrails of what was and what wasn't going to happen.
You know, if one of the advantages of the 90s of, you know, much of the life that I have grown up in is that much of the structure of technology of global governance was fairly stable. We could sort of like look at it and there were certain things. not certainties, but fairly reliable guardrails of what was and what wasn't going to happen.
You know, if one of the advantages of the 90s of, you know, much of the life that I have grown up in is that much of the structure of technology of global governance was fairly stable. We could sort of like look at it and there were certain things. not certainties, but fairly reliable guardrails of what was and what wasn't going to happen.