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Ryan Galitzdorfer's avatar

Great read, and some great points! The skills of critical thinking, patience, and delayed gratification are becoming increasingly rare in today’s fast paced world.

Abbey Jackson's avatar

especially delayed gratification...I find even myself having trouble with that to be honest

Camilo Zambrano's avatar

It's nuts how fast society is changing, and how much of that is moving from computers to social interactions.

Attention spans going increasingly down, kids that are not developing critical thinking.

It's our mission to keep pushing for coherence in a world where drift propagates faster.

Abbey Jackson's avatar

They are however becoming increasingly innovative problem solvers. Their brains are changing from passive thinking to seeking behaviour. They don't remember things anymore, but instead they figure out how to make something happen that they want. I saw an article recently about how imaging results are actually showing differences in their brains. Some areas are bigger or more active and some less so. We are evolving it seems but I do hope that critical thinking remains a human trait and not something we default to technology in the future.

Camilo Zambrano's avatar

You'd hope...

Our job is to make sure that happens 🔥

Juan Gonzalez's avatar

This sounds like a similar trend to “1 startup per month” of a while back.

So now we not only didn’t learned the lesson but are putting AI into the mix…

Camilo Zambrano's avatar

I was not familiar with that trend, but for the name, it doesn't sound good.

I think the problem is not AI. AI should be a tool, just like the Internet is.

But if we leave drift to dominate so we just resort to AI to everything, even thinking, then it's society what needs to be revisited.

We need entities that push for society coherence now more than ever.

Juan Gonzalez's avatar

In the “indie hacking” space, it’s been quite popular the “12 startups in 12 months challenge”. That’s where it comes from.

And your point is spot on.

It’s not AI the problem but the way it’s being used.

I believe the incentives are misaligned and AI is just revealing all the broken things in society that have gone under the radar for far too long.

Abbey Jackson's avatar

isn't that the truth!