Farnam Street @farnamstreet · 11 Aug 2026
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us" — John Culkin, writing about Marshall McLuhan One problem with AI watermarking on writing is that humans are learning to write like AI as quickly as AI is learning to write like humans. My kids write their school essays by
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