What is CompensAItion?
CompensAItion means deliberately keeping valued thinking abilities in practice while benefiting from AI assistance.
CompensAItion is my approach to keeping our thinking abilities in use and developing them while benefiting from AI.
A priority for me is building and maintaining a rich body of knowledge that we understand deeply. Complex thinking needs context. When all we have are a few disconnected facts, there is very little to build with. We need knowledge we can draw on, connections we understand and questions we have spent time exploring ourselves.
The subject can be football, car engines, nail colours or obscure comic books. Take an interest seriously enough to recognise patterns, understand what changes and explain how its parts fit together. Keep asking questions that make you go deeper.
There should be things you can think about in depth without asking a chatbot to supply every connection. AI can help you explore them. Maintaining and expanding your own understanding remains part of the work.
— Martin Poliačik
Glossary: CompensAItion