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How Tools Shape How We See the World
Dan Shipper
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Nov 2025
Our tools shape how we see the world. New tools like language models reveal complexity and connectedness that older, rule-based tools missed. That shift will change how we do science, business, and creativity.
1 Nov 2025
In the opener to this series, we mentioned the adage of Maslow’s hammer, which more or less goes, “To someone with a hammer, everything is a nail.” Our corollary here at the end might be, “To someone with a language model, everything is a rich and intricate web of interconnectivity.” The complexity of the tool changes the complexity of the world.