The Good Kind of Personal Intelligence by Making Data Work for Us
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joules77
3 months ago
1 replyGood idea. Especially the data ownership flip.
Check out Philosopher Andy Clark's work (Surfing Uncertainty/Natural-Born Cyborgs) on these kind of "mind extension" tools. His work was before LLMs showed up, but is still very useful food for thought, while designing this kind of stuff.
rebeccadaiAuthor
3 months ago
will do. thanks for the rec!
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