Scientists may lose taste for picking problems as agents speed up experiments
charlieharris01 · x · 2026-10-28
Responding to an AI researcher's note that agents have wrecked his attention span, scientist Charlie Harris raises a deeper worry: the sugar rush of running a million experiments at once (or at least clearing the backlog of ideas for signal) may subtly erode scientists' taste for judging which problems are worth working on in the first place.
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