The Gymnasium Effect
This essay extends arguments begun in The Geometry of the Unsayable and The Colonized Concept: that the most interesting questions about AI are not about what the machine knows, but about what kind of thinking the machine makes possible. It also picks up a thread from The Default is Contribution — Part 3: The Question of Time, which asked what humans should do with cognitive labor returned to them. In the late fifth century BCE, Socrates returns from the siege of Potidaea.