32 What is Most Important in the AI Era: Cognition and Judgment

32 What is Most Important in the AI Era: Cognition and Judgment That topic can lead to the questions: What is being replaced? What is being amplified? What was most important in the previous era? I have been summarizing the constants and changes of the AI era. This is a pure technical mindset. I've thought about your question for three years, and over the past year, I've arrived at a clear answer: the most important things in the future era are cognition and judgment. These two points were important before, equally important without AI, but in the future era, their impact is amplified—immensely, infinitely amplified. A crucial aspect of cognition and judgment is the cognition and judgment regarding AI. In the past, regarding a matter, a project, or a technology, we could only talk about judgment, not cognition. In most cases, the judgments made by experts and top-tier masters, and the intrinsic cognition those judgments relied upon, were consistent, and there wasn't an exceedingly high barrier to entry—once you reached the expert stage, you could figure out the ropes...