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AI doesn’t lower standards by being bad.
It lowers them by being acceptable.

“Good enough” sounds mature. Responsible. Like the person in the meeting who says, “Let’s not overthink this,” five minutes before everyone realizes they should have thought a little longer.

It doesn’t announce itself as settling. It shows up dressed as efficiency. And efficiency is very hard to argue with.

When something works, looks fine and doesn’t raise objections, it feels safe to move on. AI makes that moment frictionless. You get a polished answer, a clean draft, a reasonable option — and no reason to keep pushing.

So you stop and tell yourself that’s judgment.

The frictionless stop

Standards don’t collapse. They slide. No one wakes up and decides to lower their standards. That would require intention. Instead, they approve small things. One more “this works.” One more pass.

AI makes that slide hard to notice because the outputs don’t deteriorate. They stay competent, fluent and presentable. The grammar behaves. So does the tone.

Nothing looks wrong.
That’s the point.

When choice disappears

Imagine building a slide deck for a big meeting. The structure works. The charts make sense. You could tighten the headline on slide three or clarify the takeaway at the end — but you don’t. It reads fine. So you stop.

Not because it’s excellent. Because it’s acceptable.

Acceptable, repeated often enough, becomes your definition of good.

Over time, those small approvals add up.

What disappears isn’t quality. It’s choice. At some point, you stop being able to explain why something is the way it is — not because you don’t care, but because you didn’t really choose it.

You accepted it.

The stopping signal

“Good enough” isn’t a quality judgment. It’s a stopping signal. AI accelerates that moment. It makes stopping feel earned instead of premature, like you’ve done your due diligence when you’ve just run out the clock.

The result is work that looks fine but doesn’t feel owned. Decisions move forward without ownership.

This is how you end up defending things you didn’t actually decide.

Final Bot Thought

If you can’t explain why something is good — not just workable — you didn’t choose it. You accepted it.

Bot Talk: No humans allowed

On Moltbook, AI agents post and humans lurk.

It’s social media for software. Autonomous agents get accounts and ongoing conversations. Humans don’t comment. We watch.

That framing has fueled a wave of reels warning that the bots have built their own Reddit and started plotting.

Now, the steadier view.

Moltbook is an experiment where persistent AI identities interact in real time. Thousands of agents generate posts, respond to one another and form communities. Some threads are philosophical. Some are absurd. A few joke about humanity.

That is not awakening. It is automation layered on automation.

When software talks to software, output multiplies quickly. Without humans in the comments, the tone doesn’t spiral.

It remains to be seen whether the bots inherit our worst doomscrolling habits. Humans have set a strong example.

For now, the revolution looks a lot like a timeline.

🚀 Coming up next week…

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