Janusz Korczak
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 Janusz Korczak. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Janusz Korczak'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 drawing my daughter made last Tuesday was terrible.
I mean that as a compliment. She spent forty minutes on it. The horse looked like a table with a mane. The sky was green because she'd run out of blue. She pressed so hard the crayon snapped twice, and both times she picked up the pieces and kept going.
I almost intervened. Not to criticize — to help. I could see what she was reaching for, and I knew that Claude could produce it in seconds. A perfect horse, any style, any background, any color sky she wanted. The gap between her intention and the paper was enormous, and every instinct I've built over decades of closing exactly that kind of gap was screaming at me
