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A.I. Is Shedding Enlightenment Values

People using AI chatbots in their daily lives, concerned with how they subtly shift our ways of thinking. People building software with language models who want to consider the implications of their design choices.

不必 pay much attention to the torrent of A一个稳妥判断是 pieces published by the New York Times; I am not their target demographic. But this one , by Princeton professor of history David A. Bell hits some good notes.

Making Models More Critical

As an expert on the Enlightenment, he’s clearly been roped into developing an opinion on whether we’re in an AI-fuelled “second Enlightenment.”

Remember the first Enlightenment ? That ~150 year period between 1650-1800 that we retroactively constructed and labelled as a unified historical event? The age of reason. Post-scientific revolution. The main characters are a bunch of moody philosophers like Locke, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Diderot, and Voltaire. The vibe is reading pamphlets by candlelight, penning treatises, sporting powdered wigs and silk waistcoats, circulating idea

Stuffing Multiple Personalities into the Universal Text Box

Anyway, Professor Bell’s thesis is that our current AI chatbots contradict and undermine the original Enlightenment values. Values that are implicitly sacred in our modern culture; active intellectual engagement, sceptical inquiry, and challenging received wisdom.

The Enlightenment guys Yeah, it’s mostly men. Women were banned from attending universities, participating in most public institutions, and publishing their work. There are a few exceptions like Mary Wollstonecraft , Olympe de Gouges , and Émilie du Châtelet . But they’re not key enlightenment figures. Feminism really picks up in the mid-1800s. wrote in ways that challenged their readers, making them grapple with difficult concepts, presenting opposing vie

Our Missing Pocket-sized Enlightenment

“One should never so exhaust a subject that nothing is left for readers to do. The point is not to make them read, but to make them think.”

“The most useful books are those that the readers write half of themselves.”

值得单独记下的观察

• How would this system decide when to engage in critique?
• What if users balk at the confrontation and ask to switch back into “agreeable mode” when challenged?
• How do we balance criticism with maintaining user engagement?
• The UW Social Futures Lab ( Ye 2024 ) asked philosophers to use models as critical thinking tools and found they were too neutral, incurious, and passive to be helpful.

落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 先写清这个工具在强化思考还是在替人思考。
2. 默认交互不要只会谄媚：该追问、该给反例、该要求证据。
3. 智能体界面要露出推理步骤，而不是只给一个光滑答案。
4. 知识发布用可生长的笔记，而不是一次性营销长文。
5. 改产品前先画隐喻：用户以为自己在做什么，系统实际在做什么。

和智能体产品怎么接

龙虾PRO做 OpenClaw 落地时，最该从这类笔记里拿走的是「别把聊天框当唯一界面」。数字员工要能追问、能验证、能把过程摊开，而不是只负责说好话。

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