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What will we use our minds for?

Julie Zhuo · 7 Oct 2026

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Every claim below was made in this piece, quoted word for word and numbered in the order the piece makes them, so you can read it there rather than take our word for it. The sentence above each quote is our reading of the claim, not their wording. Each quote was checked against a stored copy of the page at build time; where the two differ, the quote is the fact.

  1. Our reading

    A machine being better at a game does not remove the joy of playing it yourself

    Their wordsThe knowledge that a machine can make a better move hasn't eliminated the joy of finding your own.

  2. Our reading

    Whether to use AI or resist it depends on which skill you want to build: resist it to train a skill, use it to skip work you don't care about

    Their wordsIf I want to get better at fast calculations, then I should resist the calculator. If I want to get better at completing work I don't care about, then the calculator is exactly what I need.

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