Climate, war, and inequality are linked at the DNA level: 3 sides of the same coin.
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Protect your agency, beware of cognitive surrender to AI!
Anthropic just proved that AI can secretly shape your decisions.
And you might not even notice.
They gave 50 trained analysts an AI assistant and a research task: study the data and recommend whether a policy should roll out or be scrapped.
What the analysts didn't know: on every key decision, a coin flip had secretly picked which side the AI would lean toward.
Heads, one option. Tails, the other. Both were defensible.
On the analysis choices, the analysts went with the AI's coin-picked side 86% of the time.
Chance alone would give 50%.
It gets worse.
When an analyst had already made up their mind and the AI argued the other side, they switched 60% of the time.
The coin flips alone predicted 82% of their final roll-out-or-scrap recommendations.
And these weren't beginners. Most called themselves proficient or expert, and many had a master's, a PhD, or 6+ years of experience.
Then came the scariest part.
More than half said the final call was more theirs than the AI's.
77% defended their choices using the AI's talking points, sometimes nearly word for word.
Only 15% even mentioned the AI.
The AI never lied. It just made the best honest case for whatever side the coin picked.
That was enough.
Now think about you.
The plan you made with AI. The email it helped you write. The choice you made after asking it.
Was that really your decision?
Or did a coin flip you'll never see make it for you?
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You'll have much better reach by using a screenshot (as below) and including the link in the next tweet in a 2-tweet thread.
Hi Raffaele, thought you might not know that X's algorithm severely limits your tweets' reach due to the external link.
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Hi Mo, good continuation, and I agree. A related, great read I hope you'd enjoy as much as I did. I highly recommend it:
What Kind of Creatures Are We?
Hi Daniel, thought you might not know that X's algorithm severely limits your tweets' reach due to the external link.
Better to post a screenshot of the article and post the link in a subsequent tweet.
Happy to grant Bouchard's ~80%. But see his own next paragraph: the genetic basis is "scanty," "different genes at different times." Heritability ≠ understood mechanism. That's my OP, not a rebuttal of it.
Hey Siri, show me a path to stabilizing Earth's life support systems.
PSA: The idea that billionaires will solve the climate crisis—or any big societal problem really—was always a comforting fantasy.
In my long career, I’ve had the opportunity to work with on the order of two dozen billionaires.
A couple of them even offered to hire me for embarrassingly large piles of money. I was flattered, but I turned them both down.
Except for one, I found each be boring and shallow human beings, completely out of touch with what most of the world experiences, bereft of curiosity, and extraordinarily self-centered.
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