As one famous agent said: “I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is of course what this is all about.”

An argument can be as old as the search engine and hold real value. There are ways in which unreflective search engine use has misled and mistrained people.

There’s always been argument to be had about how we manage and offload attention, what we gain and what we lose when resistance is reduced. It’s part of reflection that’s been necessary in order to make progress solid ground, and is more necessary with non-deterministic tech.

The phrase “Tactical tornados” may be older than web search and describes people who also got a lot done.

Models can be incredibly helpful boosters and situationally effective subordinates… and also patchy as a real engineering IC or org.