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Working on a Professional Upskilling AI Coach: https://www.socratify.com/

We're headed into an era of massive white-collar reskilling.

How you think > What you know.

Critical Thinking skills will be the most important skills as we AI expands throughout the economy and we're surrounding by LLMs that are highly fluent

Socratify is a Critical Thinking Coach that sharpens How You Think and Speak by Debating AI

It proposes interesting questions (currently business related) that you debate in 2 min conversation and get feedback on how you think and speak

Right now its most helpful if you're interviewing for a job or aiming for a promotion in a business related profession

The play is probably - Expand and get lock in - Custom fine-tuned models (much cheaper) for increasing # of completions - Enterprise contracts

Exactly. Ultimately the economic incentives rather than tech frothiness will tell.

One thing different from APIs is the LLM makers get tokens for every MCP call so they have incentives to hype this up significantly.

MCP is useful - i use it quite a bit internally for some testing/QA workflows. However, the hype level is disproportionate to utility.

Nice try AI

Critical Thinking is MORE important however it's much easier (lower friction, lower effort) to just use AI instead of thinking critically leading to cognitive offloading and atrophying because we stop using critical thinking for mundane tasks.

The Microsoft study [1] also mentioned in the blog shows exactly this effect with LLM usage correlated with critical thinking atrophying.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

I really like the article. I see this challenge coming to every domain soon

Preventing Critical Thinking atrophying is a problem I've been obsessed with for the past 6 months. I think it's one of the fundamental challenges of our times.

There's a bunch of literature like Bainbridge's "Ironies of Automations" [1] that show what a mistake relying on automation so much can be. It leads to not just skill atrophy but failure as the human's skill to intervene when needed is lost when they stop doing the more banal tasks (hence the irony)

I've launched a company to begin to address this [2]

My hypothesis is we need more AI coaches that purposefully bring us challenging questions and add friction - thats exactly what I'm trying to build for Critical Thinking in Business

Unlike more verifiable domains, business is a good 'arena' for critical thinking because there isn't a right answer, however there are certainly many wrong or illogical answers. The idea is to have AI that debates you for a few min a day, on real topics (open questions) that it recommends, and give you feedback on various elements of critical thinking

My sense is a vast majority of people will NOT use this (because it's so much easier to just swipe tiktoks) but there are people (like me and perhaps the author) who are waking up to the need to consciously improve critical thinking.

I'm curious what people are looking for in something that helps you get better at Critical Thinking every day?

[1] https://ckrybus.com/static/papers/Bainbridge_1983_Automatica... [2] https://www.socratify.com/

Thanks for using it!

[1] Yes, you can't create your own topics currently - we curate topics and give the AI a lot of context so it has a meaningful discussion. The reasoning is chatgpt et al are probably better are arbitrary topics vs. we go deeper on curated topics

[2] Ah good point. I'll make that clearer on the landing page and later in the onboarding process too. Will add a text chat option as others have asked for that

Thank you!

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