AI Collapsed the Cost of Trial and Error, But Our Instincts Haven't Caught Up

AI has slashed the cost of exploring ideas, yet we still carry instincts from an era of expensive trial and error, causing us to wrongly filter out ideas now worth pursuing.

2026-08-18 ~ 2026-08-18 · 3 related posts

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