By Edo Segal
The sentence that kept failing was the one about my son.
He asked me at dinner whether AI was going to take everyone's jobs. I tried to answer. Every version I produced — optimistic, cautious, nuanced, honest — collapsed the moment I examined it. Not because the versions were wrong. Because they were answers, and the situation demanded something else entirely.
I did not understand what it demanded until I encountered Hans-Georg Gadamer.
Gadamer was a German philosopher who spent the better part of a century thinking about a deceptively simple problem: what actually happens when understanding occurs. Not the mechanics of information transfer. Not how data moves from one system to another. The event itself — the moment when something shifts inside you, when the world reorganizes
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