CONCEPT
What Fits Inside
Miller's central question after the AI compression — not how many slots the mind can hold, but what can be packed into each of them, how densely, and whether the packer understands what has been packed.
The most important question Miller's framework poses to the age of artificial intelligence is not whether AI will change what fits inside the seven slots. It already has, more dramatically than any technology in history. The question is whether the humans who benefit from that change will understand what their slots contain — whether the compression will be transparent or opaque, earned or borrowed, owned or owed. A single cognitive slot that in the age of machine code might have contained a few binary operations can now contain, through the mediation of an AI assistant, an entire functioning software system. A single slot that in the age of hand-drafted legal briefs might have contained a single precedent can now contain an entire landscape of case law. A single slot that in the age of manual scientific calculation might have contained a single variable can now contain an entire model. The compression is real. The cognitive liberation is real. The question
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