A mind of your own
When anyone can generate anything, what you want is a mind of your own.
AI can generate seemingly competent paragraphs on almost anything, in seconds. What it can't generate is your life experiences, your opinions, your mistakes and lessons.
Charlie Munger spent decades building and refining his personal checklist of 25 psychological tendencies to explain the irrationality he saw in business and investing. Anyone can use Google or ChatGPT to get the similar psychology concepts but he wouldn't understand them as deeply as Munger or be able to apply it as quickly and correctly as he could.
In Wisdom Takes Work, Ryan Holiday shared a Seneca story of a lazy Roman who bought knowledgable slaves to look wise in front of his friends, getting lines from his men instead of knowing them by heart. Doesn't that sound like how many people are using ChatGPT nowadays?
The quiet danger is handing all your thinking to the machine. Fernsage keeps you where the thinking and learning happens: capturing what you notice, connecting it, refining it.
If computers were to collect and organize everything called knowledge—never mind whether it really is knowledge or not—such a collection would be pointless if it did not culminate in someone’s personal understanding, if it did not help someone to think about things, to work something out, to reflect.