AI collapsed the cost of exploring ideas, but our instincts still price exploration high
dfinke · x · 2026-08-18
dfinke argues we spent our lives learning which ideas weren't worth pursuing, because exploration meant hours or days of learning new tech, finding expertise, or tedious work. AI collapses many of those costs — yet the mental filters remain. We're carrying expensive-exploration instincts into an increasingly cheap-exploration environment: the cost changed faster than our instincts did.
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