AI has every advantage except wanting anything — why human choice still matters
jeffbullas · x · 2026-08-25
jeffbullas reflects on humans competing with intelligent machines: AI reads faster, remembers more, works longer, compares millions of possibilities, and operates at inhuman scale.
But one thing is missing — AI doesn't need anything. It doesn't wake up wanting to build a company, worry about its children, feel the sting of failure, or fall in love with a problem for ten years. Humans are limited in intelligence, time, and energy, yet those limits force us to choose what matters. Meaning, he argues, may be one reason human judgment stays valuable in a world of near-unlimited intelligence.
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