When AI makes reasoning free, the power shifts from those who answer to those who ask.
For centuries, the world rewarded the 'Economy of Insight.' Value belonged to those who could calculate, deduce, and produce the right answer. That era is over.
Between 2022 and 2024, the cost of high-level AI reasoning dropped by over 280x. Intelligence is no longer a scarce resource; it is a utility, priced like electricity.
We are undergoing a painful inversion. As 'thinking' becomes cheap, we enter the 'Economy of Curation.' The market no longer pays for the labor of creation, but for the precision of the question.
This is the obsolescence of cognitive drudgery. Drafting, basic coding, and syntax are now commodities. If the output is infinite, the technical skill to produce it loses value.
So, what is the new scarcity? Volition. In a world of infinite answers, the ultimate asset is the human will to decide what is worth thinking about.
We face a structural risk: drowning in 'synthetic competence.' AI can generate endless fluent content, but it lacks intent. It has no 'lived experience.'
Without a human hand on the tiller, we risk 'model collapse'—an echo chamber where AI trains on AI, degrading into nonsense. Your judgment is the firewall.
Shift your mindset from 'Maker' to 'Curator.' The workflow is no longer 'Draft and Polish.' It is 'Prompt, Generate, Evaluate, and Edit.'
Cultivate 'Taste.' As technical barriers vanish, your ability to distinguish the brilliant from the merely 'good enough' becomes your economic moat.
Guard against 'Cognitive Atrophy.' Do not let the machine replace your critical thinking. Use AI to accelerate your mind, not to bypass it.
Verify everything. In an age of epistemic fear, human provenance is a luxury good. Be the source of truth in a sea of synthetic fluency.
The machine can generate the map, but only you can choose the destination. Hold the tiller. Own the question.
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