AI doesn't just change how individuals think, it changes what what can see.

When everyone thinks with the same tools, diversity of perception may disappear.

The risk isn't that AI fails us, it's that we all start missing what matters.

I've spent considerable time focusing on what AI does to individual thinking. From the student who stops struggling to the professional who stops trusting their own judgment, it's been eye-opening. And while these are real concerns, there may be something bigger going on.

Here's the key question. What happens when millions of individuals make the same "cognitive trade" simultaneously? It's not a failure of any single mind, but one that manifests in the aggregate.

Disagreement Is the Point

Generally speaking, complex systems don't self-correct through consensus. They self-correct through the productive friction of people who see things differently. And when that happens, they arrive at different conclusions for reasons they sometimes may not be able to fully articulate.

Markets are an excellent example. A financial market isn't, at its core, a calculation. It is a mechanism........

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