Dan Sheehan

@dansheehan.bsky.social

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Writer of books (I Am Not A Wolf, American Purgatory, Zoo Kid), games (Magic: The Gathering, Who's A Good Boy?), and jokes (The Onion, my many beautiful posts)

Simply too many copies of CASCADE CASCADE

What’s at risk is nothing less than the ability to think for oneself. If people become overreliant on AI to write for them, they could lose the capacity to interrogate or even develop their own views. These are quintessentially human capacities. “If we gave those up,” the NYU philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah told me, “we’d stop being the kind of humans that we are. We’d be very different creatures.”

Force of Will with the text "we must be prepared to part with things we hold dear to protect those we love"