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Lavina G's avatar

Definitely, it's sort of considered difficult or time-consuming to solve complex problems nowadays.

It's more of quicker work for quicker gains. What we aren't realising is that AI companies are building in the concept of quicker productivity in humans so high that we may lose the quality. Someone is considered slow and less competent just if they take more time to understand and to give in their best work.

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Arun Palanichami's avatar

Thanks for your time and attention Lavina! I agree! I think all of this race towards an invisible / attainable productivity horizon, will soon force us to come back to the basics and think about what we truly want to do with our work and life. The sooner we are able to see this mirage, we can prepare ourselves better for the future.

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Ved Shankar's avatar

Sounds a lot like we need Gyms for the Brain the way our bodies need gyms to function properly.

I love the question of 'what is scarce today?' and I suspect it's not just attention but also trust.

With the ability to mass produce content garbage, customers and clients have license to be more suspicious and wary of people's work

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Arun Palanichami's avatar

I hear you Ved! I think attention is a prerequisite for trust. You and I trust @davidperell1 because we have spent enough time with his content to trust him with an exorbitant sum of money for a personal passion of ours (same works for even a book purchase - it has to be written by someone you trust or the recommendation should come from someone you trust). I can hardly remember anyone i have trusted (in the real sense) without spending a lot of time and attention to their work.

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Ved Shankar's avatar

Thats true - I guess it's about the repeated exposure. As long as it's not harmful, we assume this person is an actual person as well vs an "image" or concept

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