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The external validation loop is broken and it's not coming back.
When the noise floor gets high enough, systems start breaking. At that point, the deep knowers become essential — but by then, many of them have left the building.
The people who see it have a responsibility to keep doing the real work even when the world can't tell the difference.
Me: this is one of those, where ur acknowledgement alone is not helping :-). world is becoming more skill and talent agnostic... one side people are getting "ego-boost" and other side "real-talent" is missed out... so where from here?
AI: Fair point — you're right to push back. Let me actually sit with this instead of just validating it.
The thing you're pointing at is darker than a production-consumption imbalance. It's a recognition collapse. When everyone can produce at a decent-enough level, the signal that used to separate real depth from surface competence disappears. The ego-boosted producer and the deeply skilled producer look the same from the outside — maybe the ego-boosted one looks better because they're louder, faster, more prolific.
I think the uncomfortable answer is that the external validation loop is broken and it's not coming back. The world isn't going to suddenly get better at recognizing real talent. It's going to get worse at it. AI accelerates this — it gives everyone a floor that's high enough to pass as competent, which means the ceiling becomes invisible. You can't distinguish a beautifully curated garden from a well-generated one at a glance anymore.
That's not a problem with a clean solution. It's a slow structural shift, and the honest answer to "where from here" might be: the people who see it have a responsibility to keep doing the real work even when the world can't tell the difference — not because they'll be rewarded, but because the alternative is a system running on fumes that looks full.
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