The End of Thinking ⇾

Derek Thompson, writing on his blog:

Thinking benefits from a similar principle of “time under tension.” It is the ability to sit patiently with a group of barely connected or disconnected ideas that allows a thinker to braid them together into something that is combinatorially new.

This entire expanded essay is excellent. It covers several topics that often get covered separately (decline of reading, decline of writing, AI coming for us all, etc.) and stitches them together the unfortunate narrative that seems in many ways unavoidable.

I’ve been saying it to my family for a long time now, but wall-e dystopia is rather quickly approaching us.

Read more. Write more. AI for mundane tasks and what was previously out of reach for reduction of mundane digital tasks. Touch grass. We must force ourselves to avoid the comfort of convenience. It will be our undoing as our brains unravel into a loose and disintegrating ball of yarn that used to be our novelty.

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