4 AI & You

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4.1 Cognitive self-experiment: Something

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4.2 AI is like food

4.3 In this book: This is your brain on AI (TIYBAI)

I was re-reading Dune recently and was very much struck by this passage:

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

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insights from a cognitive scientist - there are certain things we know about the human brain.

  • neuroplasticity
  • the importance of learning inputs
  • what you are learning from is one half. what you are not learning from in that same time period is the other half.
  • reward systems

Food/nutrition analogy.

4.4 Other resources

Nonfiction

  • The Shallows

  • Addiction by Design

  • The Social Dilemma (Netflix documentary)

Science fiction (some commentary on why sci-fi can be so prescient and cutting)

  • Black Mirror?

  • Ted Chiang - novella, and that one short story

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