CoggedNCode
The mundane, everyday things change with technology. The Cognitive Mechanics of Human-Centered AI.
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Curiosity and Inquisitiveness (opens the original)
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The treatment had worked, and then the parasites began surviving it.By the 1960s, resistance to chloroquine was undermining a dependable treatment for malaria. The disease added another danger to American soldiers in the Vietnam War, while China entered the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution; the loss of life to a parasite was not something that both military institutions could bear.In 1969, that urgency reached a young researcher named Tu Youyou. Originally from Ningbo, Tu had trained in both
Before I Build the Rest (opens the original)
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In this post, I am moving forward on what might become a bigger project at the end of the month.Over the past several months, I have been writing about intellectual virtues and how they appear in interactions with AI. Somewhere along the way, the individual posts began looking less like separate essays and more like parts of the same work.Thanks for reading CoggedNCode! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input clas
Introduction — After the Answer (opens the original)
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Nothing notable happened in that room.Homework was being completed on a weekday afternoon. A well-intended parent remembering something poorly. A daughter asking for a reason. A smartphone close enough to reach. The exchange took a few minutes before she returned to her work.But inside those few minutes were several small choices.I could have faked my knowledge after raising what I saw as a connection. I could have dismissed the thought altogether and kept silent. My daughter could have accepted
The Next Question (opens the original)
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There was a time when I could have answered her question, when I was her age, when I was rehearsed, when I was tested.I am a father of a teenage girl, and she is at the stage of her life when she is entering high school. It is familiar: wake up, go to school, classes, classes, classes, return home, complete homework… and then the nested tests along the way.This is the process of educating young people throughout the world. And somewhere along the way, this routine does something else: it reminds
Intellectual Humility (opens the original)
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He entered the main hall. The monastery had been on edge for days: whispers and increasing silence, quick steps and hastened, abruptly ended conversations. And now a younger monk stood before his brothers to be judged.Behind him, Abba Moses walked in late. The eyes of the council members fixated—not at him at first, but on the floor. A thin trail of sand ran across the tiles, as if the room itself had begun to leak time. It fell from a basket lashed to his back, grain by grain, like time escapin
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