Overcoming status quo bias: The need for visible AI breakthroughs
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-08-30
Afinetheorem points out that the nature of status quo bias makes it harder to understand the benefits of "new things we haven't done before" compared to "existing things we like". Society does not need even more status quo bias, which means we need visible, great new things (like Waymo) to appear as quickly as possible to break this cognitive barrier.
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