AI May Reveal Which Scientific Activities Truly Build Understanding
mioana · x · 2026-09-16
The author concludes the thread: AI may help reveal which scientific activities genuinely advance our learning and understanding, and which we did partly to prove ourselves simply because they were hard — echoing the earlier points on scarcity value, chess-style competition, and skill-building.
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