These thoughts from Thought Shrapnel are in conflict:

a Japanese farmer who rediscovered the old ways, and paying more attention to the seasons

and

Essentially, everything is emergent, and all your brain is doing is making links between things. Which is why I don’t have any problem in using LLMs as part of my workflow.

Inhabiting time (“paying more attention to the seasons”) is a kairos-forward approach, and seems to have spooky emergent properties.

Using LLMs to replace, automate, or accelerate link-making is chronos-forward, and, while not bad, is very much not the same thing.