Note: I accidentally published this before it was ready! I decided to tweak the typos, remove a couple terrible fragments and otherwise leave it as-is. Ideas have always been cheap; it's the execution that's the multiplier. In the AI world we're hurtling toward, which is driving down the cost of execution, I guess that means ideas are more devalued than ever? Cheaper still than an idea is an observation. It's the Xerox of an idea run through a filter—artifacts and fidelity sometimes lost, b...