John Nosta
@JohnNosta
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I'm a Leading Innovation Theorist in Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine.
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Joined January 2009
🔥"John Nosta's latest in @PsychToday—'AI, the Circle, and the Shadow'—is essential reading. He reframes AI not as rival or replica, but as the sine-wave shadow of human consciousness: fluent yet weightless, precise yet unmoored. Must-read for anyone navigating the corridor where
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Human and AI shadows meet on the same wall, and that small overlap is where the real magic begins.
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🚨2025 might just be the year of the cognitive slippery slope. Watching Intelligence Lose Its Friction https://t.co/LxLYsaphPJ
#AI #cognition #LLMs
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The danger of AI isn’t that it gets things wrong, but that it finishes our thinking for us.
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Metamaster @JohnNosta thinks beyond his thinking. He moves minds deeper, wider, and higher into knowns, unknowns, and unknowables about AI and our emergent “digitalselves.” Yes, one neologism for the forecast oneness illustrated in his 5⭐️ #TheDigitalSelf series in @PsychToday.
🧵1/3. Believability Over Truth We’ve entered a world where what feels true outweighs what is true. The new gatekeeper of reality is emotional coherence, not evidence. 🤔Today, we face a crisis. How do you defend truth when belief has become the stronger currency? 👇👇👇
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🚨2025 might just be the year of the cognitive slippery slope. Watching Intelligence Lose Its Friction https://t.co/LxLYsaphPJ
#AI #cognition #LLMs
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The danger of AI isn’t that it gets things wrong, but that it finishes our thinking for us.
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RT @LiannaAdams: This was the article from @JohnNosta that helped shaped my recent keynote in Dubai. Thank you John! 🙏🏼✨ Read on to know…
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Thrilled and hopeful that “Healing the Sick Care System” is still a top new release on Amazon. Thanks to all interested in making the nations health system work for people rather than process.
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Another cheerful holiday insight from Yuval Hariri.
“As far as we can tell from a purely scientific viewpoint, human life has absolutely no meaning. Humans are the outcome of blind evolutionary processes that operate without goal or purpose. Our actions are not part of some divine cosmic plan, and if planet earth were to blow up
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The Ultimate Paradox: How AI Leads Us Back to Our Humanity (As artificial intelligence gets smarter, can humans grow wiser?) https://t.co/IErcgfN3Jo
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Artificial intelligence pushes us to rediscover thought and emotion, proving our value lies in meaning, not computation.
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Happy New Year. It's time we start thinking about this... 🤔Can "too much" and "too easy" undermine what makes thought meaningful? AI and the Abundance Bubble https://t.co/ZtrgUoTyys
#AI #LLMs #abundance
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Does "cognitive abundance" really make us better thinkers?
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Psychosis and AI... 📌AI Psychosis: https://t.co/fAVZtFqHlp 📌Pathology without a Person:
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What if cruelty no longer needed a conscience—just code, a platform, and an audience to applaud it?
Listen. I’ve been building technology for 30 years. The current version of AI is a dangerous experiment, not because it’s ever going to become super-intelligent, but because it’s an even more potent “algorithm” than social media for installing psychoses. Keep your kids away.
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@JohnNosta AI isn’t making us stupid, it’s making us ‘confidently blind.’ Superb description, John. We ARE trading the friction of thought for the ‘comfort of coherence.’ Hammer and nails though, it is not just a psychological flaw in my view. Rather it is a technical failure of Data
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👉How AI’s brilliance can nudge us away from our own discernment. 🧠AI and the Amathia Drift
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The danger of AI isn’t its deceit, but the quiet surrender of our own.
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@JohnNosta "My sense is that we become less practiced at embracing uncertainty and less patient with ambiguity." John is right. We’ve become allergic to ambiguity. We treat “not sure yet” as failure. But “not sure yet” is often the most responsible place to stand, until the context and
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Yes--AI computation is antithetical to human thinking. It's "anti-intelligence." It's not necessarily smarter or even worse, but completely different. https://t.co/jQnbq9U1aF
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AI is different enough from us to redefine intelligence itself without ever understanding what that means.
Major preprint just out! We compare how humans and LLMs form judgments across seven epistemological stages. We highlight seven fault lines, points at which humans and LLMs fundamentally diverge: The Grounding fault: Humans anchor judgment in perceptual, embodied, and social
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Von Neumann was the man 🔥🔥
von Neumann gave us "zero-sum" in 1944 and it's one of my favorite examples of linguistic compression. Two words that mean “strictly competitive, fixed pie, stop looking for win-wins.” The term's real gift: it reveals the default human assumption that life is chess and value
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🔥The AI question no one is asking yet... 👉Marcus → Can AI think? 👉Harari → What stories will AI control? 👉Suleyman → How do we manage AI safely? 👉👉👉Nosta → What does thinking become when friction disappears? https://t.co/wBy5iF1pwQ
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👉How AI’s brilliance can nudge us away from our own discernment. 🧠AI and the Amathia Drift
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The danger of AI isn’t its deceit, but the quiet surrender of our own.
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📉2025 Might Just be the Year of the Cognitive Slippery Slope. https://t.co/LxLYsaphPJ
#AI #LLMs #cognition
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The danger of AI isn’t that it gets things wrong, but that it finishes our thinking for us.
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Yes--AI computation is antithetical to human thinking. It's "anti-intelligence." It's not necessarily smarter or even worse, but completely different. https://t.co/jQnbq9U1aF
psychologytoday.com
AI is different enough from us to redefine intelligence itself without ever understanding what that means.
Major preprint just out! We compare how humans and LLMs form judgments across seven epistemological stages. We highlight seven fault lines, points at which humans and LLMs fundamentally diverge: The Grounding fault: Humans anchor judgment in perceptual, embodied, and social
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⚡ How AI Is Transforming Energy AI is no longer just changing software or applications, it’s reshaping the very foundations of our energy systems. After attending the Schneider Electric Innovation Summit North America, I wanted to share what I’m seeing firsthand: how AI-driven
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A wonderful insight into @JohnNosta's observations & thoughts on AI & our human thinking from this year. "The future won’t hinge on whether AI becomes more human. It's going to hinge on whether we remain willing to do the work that human thinking has always required. And in
🤔2025 might just be the year of the cognitive slippery slope... 🧠Watching Intelligence Lose Its Friction I didn’t spend this year chasing model releases or debating whether artificial intelligence has crossed some abstract threshold. What kept attracting me was something
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