"Most problems on Earth currently go un-thought-about, because thinking is expensive." Konstantine Buhler on the Cognitive Revolution at this year's AI Ascent:

More from @Konstantine on The Cognitive Revolution:

@Konstantine This is such a powerfull message.

@Konstantine Totally agree with this

@Konstantine I keep telling clients: generating ideas is cheap now. Choosing the right one and shipping it still hurts.

@Konstantine Aluminum going from precious metal to candy wrapper is wild.

@Konstantine Agreed. The bottleneck was never intelligence, it was the cost of applying it. In my own security pipelines, detection logic we couldn't afford to run continuously is now routine. Curious which domains reprice first?

@Konstantine Most problems go un-thought-about because thinking is expensive — that line is sticking. Cheaper cognition should change which problems even get named.

Drug discovery is the cleanest case. Thousands of well-understood targets have zero chemical starting point, not undruggable, just never affordable to search. Drop the cost of thinking about a target and that backlog becomes the pipeline. That's what made @Covenant_Bio's pipeline, with 4 pipelines of rare paediatric diseases in literally weeks, and now into preclinical for orphan drug status.

@Konstantine that’s why ai is the ultimate thought subsidy. we’re finally outsourcing the expensive part.

@Konstantine Thinking isn't expecting, choosing what to think about (agency) and deciding what to act upon (wisdom) is.

@Konstantine is it actually cheaper now, or are we just shifting the cost to the electricity bill?