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The Age of Agency Decay
You didn’t choose to hand off your skills. Rising expectations did it for you.
Human agency is quietly decaying. Not by choice, but because of the AI Efficiency Trap, which I will go into in more detail below.
Agency is defined as both...
Substack’s AI Detector: Why Verification Erodes Judgment
Substack announced AI detection as a protective measure. The gist of the argument is that readers should know what’s written by humans and be able to selectively filter out articles that don’t align with their expectations.
While this move...
Knowledge Work Needs Recurrent Training
Every six months, I get locked in a simulator and someone tries to kill me.
Engine failure at V1. Dual hydraulic loss. Unreliable airspeed. I hand fly approaches the autopilot would normally handle, because the airline has figured out that...
Mathematical Justification for Training Intervals
Papers I’m Reading
This article summarizes papers I’ve curated this week on AI in aviation, automation dependency, human factors in the cockpit, and pilot cognition and judgment. I’ve selected sources I believe are most relevant to t...
Airline Pilot Initial Qualification Training: What I Learned From My Third Type Rating
You’ve Already Done This
Your third Initial Qualification feels exactly like your first. You’d think it gets easier, and in some ways it does, but the nerves show up anyway. The night before training starts, the same questions creep in. Wh...
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