“Once you get to AI, the types of skills that you risk losing by constantly asking it to assist you are the cognitive skills. Skepticism. Even inquiry, structuring a mental map in order to pursue the answer to a question. Losing skills in those things means that we are losing the ability to contain the thing that threatens us, which is the AI that's threatening the de-skilling.”

yeah. Almost, almost no one will remember what this is. But back in the day, right, Letraset was really, uh, was a printed sheet of letters that you could purchase off the shelf, and they came in these little plastic sheets that you could lay down on top of a sheet of paper and rub the top of the plastic, and it would push the letter onto the paper. But that would create horrible baselines, and if you're setting a ton of text, it was a nightmare. So- On about the '80s, we had phototypesetters, which were complicated machines that had these transparent disks, each of which was dedicated to a single typeface, not even a font, but a single typeface. And you would have what was essentially a markup language. You would sit and you would code that markup language into this ancient machine, and it would tell things like, "Here's the size. Here's the position of this body of text. Here's the column width." Just like CSS now. Mm. But then you would tell it to go. You would load up some photographic paper, and then a, uh, a strong light within the machine would… Uh, it was a pinpoint light. Um, would… Uh, the machine would position that transparent thing, turn the large…