Oscillation
The Pamuk-derived term for what good AI use looks like — moving between naive and sentimental positions rather than collapsing into either.
What good AI use looks like — movement between two positions, rather than collapse into either.
Pamuk distinguishes between the naive reader (who believes the novel is real) and the sentimental reader (who treats the novel as nothing but construction). Both have collapsed the ambiguity. The good reader — the one who attains real pleasure — oscillates.
The same pattern carries over to AI use. The naive user treats AI as authority. The “just-a-tool” user treats it as instrument and nothing more. Both have collapsed the ambiguity. The literary AI user oscillates — holding the question of what the system is, what it knows, what is happening between them, open.
Oscillation is not indecision. It’s trained capacity to refuse collapse.
Source: Pamuk, O. (2010). The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist. Harvard University Press. Pairs with: Human Before The Loop.