don't become an intellectual tourist
I learned a lot from this Ted talk "How to stop AI from killing your critical thinking" With so much AI available at our fingertips it's become clear to me that critical thinking skills are more important than ever. We cannot make the mistake of developing the habit of just accepting what AI tells us and delegating our critical thinking to AI. So this talk resonated with me. The speaker is polished and in command. He hits us with some home truths: "where the knowledge worker no longer engages with the materials of their craft" "we've become intellectual tourists" we visit, but don't inhabit ideas "we've become middle managers for our own thoughts" Working with AI requires significant metacognitive reasoning (thinking about your own thinking process), about your task goals, decomposing work, applicability of gen-ai nd your ability to evaluate output. Working directly with the material makes you better at these skills and becomes...
