Key points

AI shouldn’t copy human cognition; that's the ornithopter trap.

AI must grow into its own strengths of scale, reversibility, and hyperdimensionality.

Cognitive depth comes from the parallax between human and machine axes.

I used to be the guy handing out feathers and gleefully looking up. Hold on, I’m getting ahead of myself.

In my early writing on artificial intelligence , beginning with my first “ Cognitive Manifesto ,” I approached large language models with an almost jubilant optimism about their potential to lift human cognition . I tempered that view in my more recent piece, “ Our New Cognitive Manifesto ,” where I began to look more closely at how daily life with these systems may be altering the nature of human thought. But there’s much more to unpack here

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