David Deutsch: People who process ideas the most are most vulnerable to intellectual fads
eigenron · x · 2026-10-03
Quantum computing pioneer David Deutsch offers an observation: people who process ideas heavily are paradoxically the most vulnerable to intellectual fads — a point often applied to hype cycles and groupthink in the AI community.
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