Follow-up: if speed is the crux, what's the optimal rate of revealing truths?
jessi_cata · x · 2026-11-02
Continuing the Robin Hanson debate, the author notes a preference reversal between libraries/universities/newspapers and better AI. If speed is the crux of the difference, it raises a more general question: what is the optimal rate of revelation of truths, generically?
This extends his earlier argument that AI's main early impact is faster knowledge diffusion.
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