Gabor Mate
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 Gabor Mate. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Gabor Mate'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 sentence I almost deleted was the most honest one in the entire book.
"The grinding compulsion of a person who has confused productivity with aliveness." I wrote that about myself in The Orange Pill, on a plane somewhere over the Atlantic, describing a moment when I realized I had been building for hours past the point where the joy had drained out. I kept the sentence. I published it. And then I moved on, because moving on is what builders do.
Gabor Maté would not have let me move on.
He would have stopped at that sentence the way Uri stops walking on the Princeton campus when an idea grabs him. He would have sat with it. He would have asked the question I did not ask