AI separates knowledge from identity, writing separates knowledge from memory
The article discusses how various technologies serve as separators, distinguishing different aspects of knowledge and identity. It highlights the impact of writing, GPS, and batteries in separating concepts that were once intertwined. The author emphasizes that AI, particularly large language models, is further blurring the lines between expertise and identity.
- ▪Writing separated knowledge from memory, allowing for knowledge retention without direct recall.
- ▪Technologies like GPS and batteries have similarly split concepts that were previously linked.
- ▪Large language models are redefining the relationship between intelligence and identity, producing outputs without a human behind them.
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Today I learned about technologies being separators. I watched a fantastic video that only has a few views and subscribers, and I think it will explode soon. As of Sunday May 17th, it had 3.5K views and 205 subscribers. I refreshed the page an hour later and it was already at 600 subscribers. My main point is in that video. I just wanted to combine it with my own interpretation. It's hard to know where to start, but I like one conversation I had with Gemini. (I deleted my Pro account and now all my conversations are gone, so be careful.) It went something like this: why do humans think so much in dualities, when things are more of a spectrum? Part of the answer was: because of boundaries. A thing is a thing because it is not another thing. If it's not that thing, there's a boundary.
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