When new technology makes what previously were big ideas into minutiae, it frees up your brain to think about new big ideas.

· Bits and Bobs 10/20/25
  • When new technology makes what previously were big ideas into minutiae, it frees up your brain to think about new big ideas.
    • Alfred North Whitehead: "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
    • LLMs make orders of magnitude more ideas fit inside one mind.[ig]

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