The Sunday Summary: Hesitation, truth, ignorance, and walking

Here’s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful!

Blog posts from the past week

• AI will replace doctors before nurses. It feels a bit counter-intuitive, but it’s likely that AI will replace many doctors long before it can replace nurses.
• Genius Hesitates. Consider the “hesitation” spoken of by Michael Faraday when introducing for the first time the revolutionary idea of magnetic fields. Genius hesitates.
• Information has no essential link to truth. “When we look at the history of information from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age, we therefore see a constant rise in connectivity, without a concomitant rise in truthfulness or wisdom.”
• Are you using AI to make you better or to do the work for you? Things will certainly change in the comings years, but we’re at a point right now where there is a pretty clear divide: are you using AI to make you a better person, or are you just using it to be lazy?
• You can’t point to a day. It’s like if you floss regularly and get a good check-up at the dentist. Which day of flossing did the trick? Or if you only floss sporadically and get a bad check-up, which day of skipping caused the cavity?
• The discovery of ignorance. “A scientific institution gained authority because it had strong self-correcting mechanisms that exposed and rectified the errors of the…