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Their wordsOn the one hand, as we’ve discussed, your personal attention is now the most valuable, critical resource. It’s easy to get the computer to do work for you - it’s harder to pay attention to that work and make sure it’s right.
Our reading
Trust is a compression of attention: past evidence tells you where you no longer need to check.
Their wordsIn some sense, trust is a compression of attention. We can verify something more quickly because evidence accumulated in the past lets us know where we do or don’t have to check now.
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