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Ep. 250: In Defense of Thinking
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Devaluation of Human Cogitation
Human cogitation is being reduced to algorithmic digital computation. The actual human sitting there thinking hard thoughts and creating new value out of nothing is devalued in this framework. This obviously makes a lot of sense for the tech companies because now all the value is in the technological tools. It opens up the possibility for a tech company to have a massive piece of the economic pie in the sector. If you build a software everyone is using, then you're going to make massive profitability.
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