As humans abandon text, AI successors are taking up our best communication medium
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-08
In a follow-up thread, Paul Novosad argues that different media trigger different amounts of critical thinking versus swallowing bad ideas whole, and that nearly the entire era of human progress happened with text as the dominant medium.
The irony: humans may be abandoning text just as AI — our successors — takes it up, shifting the medium's primary users from people to machines.
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