Your attention span is strengthened for the most part, and you become more curious about the physical world. I would go on long trips and entirely have the time to myself rather than having to deal with email or online responsibilities.įor 30, 40 years, you learn how to use a library how to do particular kinds of research. So I just spent a great deal of time reading and rereading classic books studying them. I maybe had some version of the internet as we know it in my late thirties or at age 40. Tyler Cowen: I was born in 1962 and I didn't even have email until I was 30. Jordan Schneider: Coming back to the intellectual-development piece of this, what do you think not having the internet for the first few decades of your life gave you, and how is that potentially going to compare to people born in 2022 who are going to be growing up with all these artificial-intelligence appendages? The simple regurgitation of information, which you see in a lot of Substacks with some analysis, likely to become less important. Standing out from the crowd, extraversion, a certain kind of flare, willingness to engage with one’s own celebrity (which the AI cannot really do in the same way) … I suspect all of those traits will become more important. Either originality, or pretense to originality, will be more important. Tyler Cowen: I think sheer writing will be less important, even if the AI can't quite copy Paul Krugman or Joe Stiglitz. What will be more and less important five years from now? Jordan Schneider: Let's stay on public intellectuals. It will revolutionize the fields you and I operate in, and just be good for many, many other things we haven't even thought of yet. I think they'll very much change the traits of successful public intellectuals. Even if that's not the correct answer, it's telling you something about what it was trained on. Another person asked me, “In the lifetime of Tchaikovsky, did people know Tchaikovsky was gay?” It said no. A friend of mine asked me, why is the Ontario teachers’ pension system so large? I asked it, of course. For some questions, they're a better Google. Tyler Cowen: We'll use devices such as ChatGPT to stimulate our own thinking, to help us with lateral thought, to edit, to summarize. What do you think people will gain and lose from that transition: from having to generate everything to using these types of tools in more of an editorial sense? I feel like sitting here today, I am the last generation to have grown up and matured intellectually before AI tools. Jordan Schneider: One of the things that you've said repeatedly in past podcasts and interviews is that you're thankful that you grew up and matured intellectually pre-internet.
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