There is a growing concern that as AI assumes more of our decision-making processes, our capacity for agency may erode. So if you want to increase your cognitive agency: You have to practice at least these two things... Why at least 2 practices? So you have 2 things that are in opponent processing (meaning they work together to make you adaptive, but they’re doing opposite things). The first one is: You are within a frame and you're very carefully moving step by step through an inferential argument (what we typically call reasoning, although that's a bit of a mistake). Let's call that inference (to make it clear). Then you have a different thing, which is: “No, that's the wrong frame. I need to break out of it.” That's insight. Now they work differently… If you let your insight machinery work inside the inference frame, you can get into trouble. Example: Here's a pond, and there's a lily pad on it. Every day the number of lily pads doubles. On day 20 the pond is filled. On what day was it half f...

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