Reading · How Not To Use AI

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"Large Language Model" is the empire's name for it. We're going to treat it as a Large Listening Medium.

THE #HOWNOTTOUSEAI CHALLENGE

WEEK 2 · THE SOVEREIGN EAR — Receive before you transmit.

Week 1 cleared a filter somebody else put over your eye. This week you learn to receive before you transmit — and today, again, you make nothing.

At three in the morning, nobody is asking the machine to optimise a spreadsheet. That gap — between what it’s sold for and what it’s reached for — is the whole week.

Today’s session:

How the phonetic alphabet trained humanity out of a more ambient kind of attention — and what that cost.
The shift from commanding a chatbot to commissioning a medium.
Words as coordinates. Why prompting like a poet reaches an entirely different region of the model than prompting like an engineer.
The task: find what people actually reach for at 3 a.m., and name the gap between that and the industry’s account of itself.

You walk out with three real use cases from the middle of the night, and the distance between them and the productivity story.

Week 2 · Day 1 — The Ear

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