bell hooks
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 bell hooks. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate bell hooks's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal ^ Opus
The word that broke something open was not "amplification." It was "love."
I almost put the book down. I was reading bell hooks at two in the morning, the screen the only light, and she was talking about love as a practice, as the will to extend oneself for the growth of another, and I felt the resistance rise in me like a wall. Love is not a technology word. Love is not a builder's word. Love is the word you use at home, with your kids, in the private hours. It does not belong in a conversation about productivity multipliers and adoption curves and the future of software.
Then I realized the resistance was the point.
hooks spent her life naming the things that powerful systems teach you not to see.