{"id":2739,"date":"2025-05-21T09:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T01:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2025-05-21T09:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T01:42:13","slug":"neal-stephensons-remarks-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/neal-stephensons-remarks-on-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Neal Stephenson&#8217;s remarks on AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pointing out that humans have already learned to live with other &#8216;intelligences&#8217; in the natural world i.e. animals; and pointing to the concept by Marshall McLuhan that every augmentation is also an amputation. cf <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3706598.3713778\">Microsoft Research paper on knowledge worker critical thinking changes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nealstephenson.substack.com\/p\/remarks-on-ai-from-nz\">Remarks on AI from NZ &#8211; by Neal Stephenson &#8211; Graphomane<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/the-future-of-ai-in-knowledge-work-tools-for-thought-at-chi-2025\/\">The Future of AI in Knowledge Work: Tools for Thought at CHI 2025 &#8211; Microsoft Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pointing out that humans have already learned to live with other &#8216;intelligences&#8217; in the natural world i.e. animals; and pointing to the concept by Marshall McLuhan that every augmentation is also an amputation. cf Microsoft Research paper on knowledge worker critical thinking changes. Remarks on AI from NZ &#8211; by Neal Stephenson &#8211; Graphomane The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}