Hot take: AI didn't close intelligence gaps, it just made lazy thinkers 100x more slop
claud_fuen · x · 2026-09-12
A widely shared take argues AI hasn't solved intelligence gaps: people who were intellectually lazy or sloppy before AI now produce 100x more slop, across more dimensions—product, content, media.
The conclusion: high-quality thinking is now vastly augmented and carries massive alpha—AI amplifies good thinkers rather than fixing bad ones.
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