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 [1466, "ethan-mollick", "Students who use AI as a crutch don\u2019t learn anything. It prevents them from thinking. Instead, using AI as co-intelligence is important because it increases your capabilities and also keeps you in the loop. [\u2026]\r\n\r\nAI does so many things that we need to set guardrails on what we don\u2019t want to give up. It\u2019s a very weird, general-purpose technology, which means it will affect all kinds of things, and we\u2019ll have to adjust socially.", "Ethan Mollick", "https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-10-03/ethan-mollick-analyst-students-who-use-ai-as-a-crutch-dont-learn-anything.html", "2024-10-06T15:26:42+00:00", "{}", null, null, null, 0, null]
 [1467, "ed-yong", "Providing validation, strength, and stability to people who feel gaslit and dismissed and forgotten can help them feel stronger and surer in their decisions. These pieces made me understand that journalism can be a caretaking profession, even if it is never really thought about in those terms. It is often framed in terms of antagonism. Speaking truth to power turns into being hard-nosed and removed from our subject matter, which so easily turns into be an asshole and do whatever you like.\r\n\r\nThis is a viewpoint that I reject. My pillars are empathy, curiosity, and kindness. And much else flows from that. For people who feel lost and alone, we get to say through our work, you are not. For people who feel like society has abandoned them and their lives do not matter, we get to say, actually, they fucking do. We are one of the only professions that can do that through our work and that can do that at scale.", "Ed Yong", "https://xoxofest.com/2024/videos/ed-yong/", "2024-10-11T01:45:23+00:00", "{}", null, null, null, 0, "at [19:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddy5uMdzZB8&t=1187s)"]
 [1468, "mike-caulfield", "The primary use of \u201cmisinformation\u201d is not to change the beliefs of other people at all. Instead, the vast majority of misinformation is offered as a service for people to *maintain* their beliefs in face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.", "Mike Caulfield", "https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/copium-addicts-what-misinformation", "2024-10-11T15:21:37+00:00", "{}", null, null, null, 0, "via [Charlie Warzel](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/hurricane-milton-conspiracies-misinformation/680221/)"]
+[1469, "james-cham", "Frankenstein is a terrific book partly based on how concerned people were about electricity. It captures our fears about the nature of being human but didn\u2019t help anyone really come up with better policies for dealing with electricity. I worry that a lot of AI critics are doing the same thing.", "James Cham", "https://twitter.com/jamescham/status/1844966797428261341", "2024-10-12T05:18:48+00:00", "{}", null, null, null, 0, null]

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