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The brain was free. So nobody priced it.
The price of building a poor imitation becomes the first honest appraisal of the original.
Me: hmmm... like no free things are appreciated till the cost paid is very high.... this one will teach us, what is the definition of price and value.....
AI: Yeah. That lands.
The brain was free. So nobody priced it. Now we're trying to rebuild it from scratch and discovering the bill is enormous — and we're still only buying the surface.
That's probably the real lesson this era teaches. Not "what can AI do" but "what were humans doing all along that we never bothered to value." The price of building a poor imitation becomes the first honest appraisal of the original.
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