It's more important than ever that humans take the time to actually write and communicate directly themselves. This content, I dub, Wetsourced.
What you are reading right now was fully wetsourced. My fingers are jabbing against my keyboard and I'm correcting my own typos and taking breaks between words to think about what the best thing to say next is.
My brain is pulling on the experience of a slow growth childhood period- from birth to university- where for over a shockingly long time I was unable to form speech, or god forbid, even properly form a for-loop - or how many toes I had.
And after that period, I have spent literal YEARS building companies, watching movies, writing code, writing documents, dealing with confused coworkers, dealing with angry customers, dealing with SEVs and SEVs, shutting down failed startups, editing my resume, flattering a hiring manager, talking with my therapist, and more. Yes, I've done even more in the 43 years of my life than is listed right there.
Further, most of it was MESSY. Mistakes were made!
And all of that experience, is filtered into this big grey mass inside my skull in an incomprehensible maze of wet matter and electrons. Designed by no one- except trial and error and death and birth and survival.
I'm using all of that to tell you this story. To transmit these ideas from my skull to my nervous system to my fingers to some butterfly switches to a computer- and then out over the internet. To copy a pattern of neurons in my head to yours.
I'm wetsourcing it.
And frankly, the only things I want to read are wetsourced. I'd love to gain from YOUR human experience! And even you wetsourcing your insights and knowledge- it even helps the AI- who are training on this very data whether I like it or not.
So, I come here today asking you to please label your blog posts and content with wetsourced so I can know if I'm going to get a unique human idea––– or a digital facsimile of a human idea previously shared by someone else and worked through a giant weighted pattern matching probability model.
Label it!
I am overall bullish about AI, so nothing in this manifesto should be seen as an 'anti' position on the power and opportunities given to us by our new super intelligent coworkers.
Instead, I'd like to position my views as 'Pro-Human', in that I firmly believe that this cycle of innovation will not replace the superiority of the human brain in creativity, insight, and thinking outside the box. Maybe the next cyclical jump will get us to real human replacement levels- but much like how the excitement of the Space Race had people thinking we'd be living on Mars by 1975- every punctuated equilibrium of advancement eventually hits a limit.
Also, this whole site (not the content in the blog) is AI built. And my previous writings make that point clear.
However, I am still more interested in spending my time learning from YOU.