Instead of Pacing AI, We Should Boost Society's Absorptive Capacity
mrdrozdov · x · 2026-09-21
mrdrozdov offers a different angle on the "pacing" debate: society can only absorb new information at a certain rate, and generating beyond that rate is wasteful and distracting.
He argues we should invest far more in proposals and technologies that increase society's absorptive capacity—a management concept originally describing an organization's ability to recognize, assimilate, and commercially apply new information—rather than focusing solely on slowing AI generation.
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