Your point that value migrates toward deciding what deserves attention before the work begins is the one I would press hardest, because that decision is rarely made fresh. By the time a seasoned person judges what is worth attending to, years of formation have already settled most of it, and settled it below the level of choice. The same training that produces good judgment also tunes attention toward what a field codes as signal and quietly away from what it codes as noise, so decision excellence arrives with a cost that never shows up on the ledger. The better formed the eye, the harder it becomes to notice the horizon the formation drew, since discernment feels like seeing clearly rather than seeing selectively. So alongside what are we optimizing for, I would ask what our optimizing has already trained us to stop seeing, because AI will inherit that blind spot and scale it.
Tobin, you are framing the archetypal quest: become worthy of greatness. This usually involves slaying a dragon(s), acquiring special knowledge, then sooner or later, facing one's demons. "Perhaps that’s where the next era of competitive advantage will be found. Not in building smarter systems. But in building people and organizations worthy of the intelligence they now possess." Well said.
A great exploration of “to what end” and “Have we gone too far?” is found in the film The Time Machine (2002). Super fun film with wonderful visualizations of time passage in civilization and earth changes. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268695/
Your point that value migrates toward deciding what deserves attention before the work begins is the one I would press hardest, because that decision is rarely made fresh. By the time a seasoned person judges what is worth attending to, years of formation have already settled most of it, and settled it below the level of choice. The same training that produces good judgment also tunes attention toward what a field codes as signal and quietly away from what it codes as noise, so decision excellence arrives with a cost that never shows up on the ledger. The better formed the eye, the harder it becomes to notice the horizon the formation drew, since discernment feels like seeing clearly rather than seeing selectively. So alongside what are we optimizing for, I would ask what our optimizing has already trained us to stop seeing, because AI will inherit that blind spot and scale it.
Well stated.
Tobin, you are framing the archetypal quest: become worthy of greatness. This usually involves slaying a dragon(s), acquiring special knowledge, then sooner or later, facing one's demons. "Perhaps that’s where the next era of competitive advantage will be found. Not in building smarter systems. But in building people and organizations worthy of the intelligence they now possess." Well said.
The speed of what’s possible is faster than the ability to absorb it. Found me begging to ask “to what end”?
A great exploration of “to what end” and “Have we gone too far?” is found in the film The Time Machine (2002). Super fun film with wonderful visualizations of time passage in civilization and earth changes. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268695/