"Normal People Aren't Interesting by Construction": AI Adoption Debate Gets Blunt
felpix_ · x · 2026-10-05
Rowan Cheung argued that normal people don't have personal projects or do research, so they'll never adopt AI unless something radically changes. felpix quoted back: "by construction, normal people just aren't all that interesting!" A typical exchange in the ongoing debate over AI's adoption ceiling — one side sees power users as inherently project-driven, the other calls it circular reasoning.
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