Here's what really strikes me. Artificial intelligence doesn't just operate differently from human thought but inverts nearly every cognitive constraint we face.

AI exists in computational antithesis to human thought, something I've been calling anti-intellgence. This is where human cognition is memory-bound, and stateless. Where we strive toward fluency, it generates instantly. Where our judgment emerges slowly through error and revision, its outputs appear complete. Where understanding requires a sort of metabolic effort, confidence arrives without cost. These aren't simply differences in capability; they represent an inversion of the conditions under which intelligence itself is produced.

For us, thinking carries weight because it carries cost. Understanding requires time, and judgment emerges through this struggle. And it's this experience that shapes belief, and intelligence remains inseparable from this friction. We work toward insight, and that work matters because meaning emerges through this effort of human thought. So far, so........

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