# Bits In, Bits Out - by Erik Hoel  ## Metadata - Author: [[Substack]] - Full Title: Bits In, Bits Out - by Erik Hoel - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: Six years of AI and the world got stupider - URL: https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/bits-in-bits-out ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > We co-evolved with tools. At first, we made them from wood and bone and stone; later we began to craft abstract tools too. Language is a tool. Math is a tool. All of our vaunted cognition is, in some sense, a tool for a more protean mental firmament, which probably is consciousness itself. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kkbj56ka8f3k8j60hgcqw10n))