Dimitri Christakis
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by Dimitri Christakis. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Dimitri Christakis's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal
The number that rewired my parenting was not twenty-fold. It was two million.
Two million synaptic connections per second. That is the rate at which a toddler's brain is wiring itself to the world it encounters. Not the world we wish it encountered. Not the world the pediatrician recommends. The actual world — the pace of it, the rhythm of it, the reward density of it. Whatever is there during those years becomes the blueprint.
I read that number in Christakis's research and felt something I had not felt in any of the technical literature, any of the policy debates, any of the breathless conversations about the future of work. I felt the floor tilt.
Everything I argued in *You On AI* — the ascending friction,