Tag: ai


  • AI & Identity

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    Can using AI help people understand themselves better, to strengthen a healthy identity? Experiment 1. TL;DR Claude’s “self” assessment when used to generate an analysis of someone from what they have written: An AI’s personality analysis will tend to find the subject’s self-idealized narrative and present it as the whole story. It takes informed human…

  • I have been meeting with a group of people who have been discussing the impact of AI generally, and on the human experience in particular. One of the participants recommended the book The Fight For The Future of Humanity: Making The Case for a 28th Amendment by Kathleen Goble and Booker Scott. He made an…

  • An anti-pattern is a recurring response to a problem that feels intuitive or effective in the moment but produces significantly worse outcomes than doing nothing—or using a better alternative. Unlike a simple mistake, anti-patterns are systematic. They look like solutions. They have names. They feel like “common sense” until the bill comes due. Software engineers…