Tim Ferriss

Like, his ability to predict things is off the charts.

He's like the American tech Nostradamus or something.

Interesting.

What's his name?

Usually, Kevin Kelly.

Kevin Kelly.

Yeah.

He's in his 70s now, and...

He is, by the way, probably 10 to 20 times more popular in China than he is in the US, which is a whole separate conversation, but they pay a lot of attention to him.

Nonetheless, he has literally spent time with the Amish to study how they accept or reject technology.

Yeah.

He was a founding editor of Wired Magazine.

You'd think that he just would adopt everything and let trial and error sort itself out in his own life.

But no, he studies how the Amish evaluate technology.

Because despite what some people might think, it's not like they don't actually use technology.

They're just very, very methodical about how they evaluate it.

So that is the way I would think of any of this augmentation.

whether it's what people would consider no tropics and smart drugs or any type of enhancement which would include google maps ai etc like right now for instance i write ai is llms are getting incredibly good at writing and i saw a piece recently i think it was in the new yorker but uh it's like a pulitzer prize winner or some incredible writer

tested an LLM and provided very educated test readers with sample prose, and the vast majority couldn't tell the difference.

No kidding.