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Cheap Thinking, Expensive Attention

AI Breakdown ยท Sep 1, 2026 ยท 9m

๐‡๐ž๐ซ๐ž'๐ฌ ๐š ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ. ๐–๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐€๐ˆ ๐š๐ฌ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ง ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ . ๐Ÿ˜ณ

And in one study, the humans reviewing that work caught about thirteen percent of the harmful changes. The AI, checking itself, caught eighty nine. The safety step everyone trusts turned out to be theatre.

Today on ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐€๐ˆ ๐๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ค๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง, Quentin and Stark pull this week's theme out of that flip: ๐“๐จ๐ค๐ž๐ง๐ฌ. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐œ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž.

Intelligence is getting cheap, but a new bill takes its place every time, and one of them is your attention.

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