The most important and mysterious rule of the AI era: Polanyi's Paradox

“What we know is much more than what we can say.”

We can know more than we can tell.

This is a theory by philosopher Michael Polanyi, frequently cited by various AI experts.

AI is now iterating at an extremely fast pace; they can understand all the profound knowledge in human books, instantly solve various mathematical problems, and create various artistic works. However, there is one ability they currently lack and will never have in the future: tacit knowledge.

“Tacit knowledge” – it is dissolved in muscle memory, intuition, and countless life experiences of trial and error. It resists extraction, refuses to be encoded, cannot be standardized into textbooks, and cannot be learned by AI.

The essence of AI is to consume and calculate all explicit knowledge that is "speakable and codable." When all rules, data, theories, and methods are instantly mastered by large models, even outputting at speeds millions of times beyond human capability, where lies the advantage of humanity? It is in those aspects that cannot be encoded, "only understood but not articulated" aesthetics and taste.

AI can write lines of poetry that adhere to all rhetorical rules, yet cannot experience the loneliness of wandering alone on a rainy night street;

AI can exhaust all deductions of business models but cannot possess the courage to make decisions against the consensus in chaotic situations.

In the AI era, all skills that can be clearly expressed, step-by-step, and standardized will become cheap; while what is truly expensive is only aesthetics, taste, and intuition.

If you have read ten thousand literary works, you may not surpass AI, but your appreciation and taste for literature are unique.

The greatest revelation of Polanyi's Paradox in the AI era is: do not attempt to defeat machines in "calculation," but embrace the "tacit" that cannot be computed. In this era where algorithms try to quantify and encode everything, cultivating your inexpressible taste, intuition, and genuine life experiences is our highest privilege as humans and the most precious ability.

Enhance aesthetic sense, elevate taste, strengthen intuition.

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