The author opens with a story of building ramps and repeating endless combinations until they excel at ramp-building, expanding their possibilities through expe

The author opens with a story of building ramps and repeating endless combinations until they excel at ramp-building, expanding their possibilities through experimentation until they can say they’ve acquired quite some skill at ramp building. Consider though, how many ramps would be built if each time they had to first design and injection-mould the ramps? This would slow iteration. Fortunately there are already ramps to play with. The ramps are a tool used to build ramp courses. AI is also a tool, but it’s a tool for thinking at a certain level of abstraction. The author misses that infinite levels of abstraction exist in thought; in this way having tools of thought to lift you to higher levels lets you play in even more abstract thought-space. Having AI for the basic bits of thought is like already having ramps ready to go.