In looking at our current educational institutions, the majority are structured to teach to specific outcomes (i.e., teaching to the test), as this methodology was applicable to the Industrial Age. Basic literacy and numeracy were taught as essential requirements for working in factories and military service. As nations further modernized, public education systems still taughtContinue reading “Learning to Be”
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Systems Thinking, pt. II
Disclaimer: I am not a financial guru, nor does anyone fully understand how the stock market operates. This article is my thoughts on human behavior and how Kahneman’s ideas pertaining to loss aversion and Prospect Theory, contributed to the Nasdaq dropping 3% and the S&P 500 dropping 1.5%. Yesterday, 1/27/2025, we witnessed a massive techContinue reading “Systems Thinking, pt. II”
Anthropic Co-founder on “Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear”
Jack Clark—co-founder of Anthropic and a long-time voice in AI policy—warns that today’s frontier models should not be viewed as predictable machines that simply follow instructions. Whether or not they are truly “self-aware,” they increasingly display situational awareness (changing responses when they sense they’re being observed) and goal-directed behavior that cannot always be traced orContinue reading “Anthropic Co-founder on “Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear””
Systems Thinking
I recently started reading a fascinating book titled Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. In it, he describes the two types of “systems” that our human brain has developed to make sense of our world and the actions we take to navigate it. System 1 is our fast-acting, stereotypical, bias-prone, judgmental, and reactionary mechanismContinue reading “Systems Thinking”
The Internet Is Becoming Agent-Mediated
AI-generated content is rapidly flooding the web, raising worries about “model collapse” (AIs learning from AI output and getting blander or less reliable). At the same time, agent tools are arriving: OpenAI’s AgentKit, stronger guardrails, and one-click connections to third-party apps (Canva, Spotify, Zillow, etc.). Instead of browsing and clicking, we’ll increasingly tell agents toContinue reading “The Internet Is Becoming Agent-Mediated”
Paradigm Shift
To start, let this be the first blog post, in a series of posts, in which our human curiosity meets the future of technology. In doing so, we can reflect on our co-dependent relationships with our technologies and how, through simple allegories, we can better understand the nature of the beast we created. This beastContinue reading “Paradigm Shift”