Ilya Sobol, MD on practical considerations for AI

[…] the act of engaging with difficult, long-form thought literally restructures the architecture of your mind. It teaches you to hold complexity, to tolerate ambiguity, to follow an argument across many pages and evaluate it honestly. These are the capacities that make you a powerful thinker, and powerful thinking is the raw material that AI multiplies.

We are organisms. We are not disembodied intellects floating in digital space. We are creatures of flesh and bone and breath, and we require movement to survive—not just mental movement, but physical movement. You must move your mind and move your body. You must do both, because we are built to do both, and when either one stops, something essential begins to die.

That we will allow the tools to do our thinking and our striving for us, and in doing so, remove the very resistance that makes us capable of growth. The seedling that never feels the wind does not become a tree. It becomes kindling.

Worth reading in its entirety. Reflects so many of my thoughts about the application of AI and how to think about the developing ecosystem. I have more thoughts around the fundamental purpose of our existence in relation to technology, evolution of technologist profiles over time, and how our selection of tools is an opportunity to select the stewards of these technologies and their externalities…