A scientific benefit (and cost) of AI innovation

Short summary

AI has drastically reduced the cost of preliminary intellectual exploration, enabling researchers to sketch arguments, identify objections, test them, and reach provisional conclusions in an afternoon rather than weeks. This represents more than mere speed acceleration—it fundamentally reshapes which ideas seem worth pursuing. The most profound effect may be expanding the frontier of exploration itself.

• •AI collapsed the cost of preliminary research and exploration
• •Enables rapid idea-to-verdict iteration from weeks to hours
• •Fundamentally changes which ideas seem worth pursuing

Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.