1. The best prompt engineers are the people already good at hacking their own brains

2. They’re masters of “cognitive reframing”

3. Every high achiever in the world is a master at reframing… it’s why you can... 🧵👇

Futurist telling stories about crypto and AI at Delphi Labs. Proposed the BRC-20, Bascii and Asteroid standards.

3... it's why you can always learn something from a world class tennis player even if you don't play tennis. They know how to reframe the things most mortals avoid (practice, eating right, exercise) into very positive and desirable tasks

4. If you’re a master reframer, you’re prob going to be a world class prompt engineer… and if you’re a world class prompt engineer, you’re going to be a coveted employee (for a few years anyway)

5. Why are cognitive reframers good at prompting? Bc it’s very similar to altering our own inner monologues

6. Here's what crazy: we typically keep our inner monologues secret… now, we’re migrating those monologues to LLMs

7. We’re externalizing our deepest thoughts into the cloud

9. Don’t let those negatives upset you, though, for we’re unplugging our monologues from our finite brains and plugging them into infinite brains… then, we just have to translate the infinite wisdom back to our finite blobs of gray matter

10. If all of the above is true, the best AI users aren't necessarily the most technical. They're simply the people who are already skilled at metacognition… at interpreting their own thoughts, modifying those thoughts, analyzing information critically, and living w nuance

11. We're witnessing the birth of a new cognitive elite. Not based on IQ or education or privilege. But on your ability to extend your consciousness via AI

12. The real question isn't whether AI will replace us. It's whether YOU and I can evolve our metacognitive abilities to merge with these new external minds. Because that's where human potential now lives

8. There will be yuge consequences to this externalization (good and bad). A few bad outcomes:

a) LLMs will be hacked and your inner monologue could be exposed to the world

b) by better knowing your inner monologue, LLMs will get better at educating (& manipulating) you