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Beyond the ‘Matrix’ Theory of the Mind

The Ezra Klein Show

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The Cost of Outsourcing to AI

The Economist uses chat GPD4 to rapidly produce a thousand page complaint opposing a new development. We're just inflating and compressing content generated by AI, end quote. Our society wide obsession with speed and efficiency has given us a flawed model of human cognition. But the increased efficiency would come at a very clear cost of new ideas and deeper insights.

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