Nicholas Thompson

Please read this essay and write kind of the like most obnoxious but intelligent thing you can, right?

And then that gives you a guide to like, oh wait, let me harden this argument or let me rephrase it.

And it's super useful in politics, right?

Please read this story.

and identify like the six embedded assumptions that I don't even notice because I'm in some kind of a filter bubble that are going to trigger readers on the other side, right?

And if you do that exercise, you realize that like, oh, that little throwaway comment about like Brendan Carr, right?

Like just to pick a random example is going to just piss off all these people and you didn't even notice it.

So take out that stupid little line about Brendan Carr, right?

Like

And that is something that AI can be super helpful with.

So this came to mind because, you know, I used to, one of my old projects, I was trying to create a alternative social media ecosystem called Narwhal.

It was like this fun experiment.

We ended up selling it.

But one of the premises was,

Like we were trying to build an AI model that would challenge all of your assumptions and all of your political assumptions so that before you would post, it would say, hey, by the way, here's a counter argument.

It would kind of like sort of run the Reddit change my view mechanism through everything you say.

We thought it'd be a great way to teach people and ended up we didn't get it off the ground, but whatever.

But I do think it's a really useful exercise for journalists and writers and editors.

I don't know.

I mean, yes, there have been like, you know, I don't know.