Brand Before Self
On the strange performance of being a person right now.
On the strange performance of being a person right now.
The same technological arc that built AI is systematically keeping people in the worst state to use it.
We're so fixated on theorizing AI's invisible transformation that we ignore the extraordinary tools already on the workbench.
We're ripping out the plumbing because it looks like waste, and we won't know what it held up until it's gone.
Modern life removed difficulty from every domain simultaneously. The organism is now in withdrawal.
The most underrated thing AI gives people isn't productivity. It's permission to be curious.