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The Verification Bottleneck: Why AI’s Real Cost Is Human Attention
AI scales execution to near-zero cost. But verifying that output stays biologically bounded. The bottleneck isn't intelligence anymore. It's human verification bandwidth.
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The Verification Bottleneck: Why AI’s Real Cost Is Human Attention
AI scales execution to near-zero cost. But verifying that output stays biologically bounded. The bottleneck isn't intelligence anymore. It's human…
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