Notes on the Ability to Be “Prioritized” by Both Humans and AI
1. Scarce Resources in the +AI Era
• Different from traditional scarce resources (natural resources, technology, patents)
• The ability to attract human attention (the attention economy)
• The ability to gather and utilize AI computational power is also a new scarce resource
• Computational power itself is not scarce
→ What matters is what it is used for, and with what priority
2. What Does “the Ability to Be Prioritized” Mean?
• The ability to create a state where one is processed with priority by both humans and AI
• At its core, it is the ability to reduce the processing cost for the other side
• Not domination or manipulation, but a natural rise in priority
3. Human-Side Processing Characteristics
• Humans are overloaded with information at all times
• They unconsciously prioritize content that:
• Is easy to understand immediately
• Seems meaningful
• Feels trustworthy
• Does not cause fatigue
• People and content that are easy to process are handled first
4. AI-Side Processing Characteristics
• AI cannot think infinitely either
• It is constrained by computational resources, time, and energy
• It first judges whether something is “worth processing”
• Evaluation criteria include:
• Clear structure
• Easy classification
• Comparability
• Reusability
• AI looks at metadata before it looks at the content itself
5. Differences in Processing Order Between Humans and AI (Short Video Example)
• Humans:
• Watch the content itself
• Focus on the first 1–3 seconds, visuals, emotions, and intuition
• AI:
• Title, description, tags, length, category
• Retention rate, initial velocity, skip rate
• Humans process experiences; AI processes blueprints
6. Dual Optimization for Ease of Processing
• For humans: intuition, emotion, low cognitive effort
• For AI: structure, meaning, statistics
• One-sided optimization tends to fail
• It is essential to assume that humans and AI have different “processing entry points”
7. Common Conditions for Being Prioritized
• Clear objectives
• Clean structure
• Consistency
• Low noise
• Respect for the other party’s resources
• Trust acts as a catalyst
8. Why People Who Are Unaware Struggle
• They believe they are competing only with other humans
• In reality, they are filtered by AI first
• The frustration of “the content is good, but it doesn’t reach anyone”
• This is not a lack of ability, but unawareness of changes in the processing system
9. What Changes Once You Realize This
• You stop blaming yourself
• Emotional exhaustion decreases
• Problems can be reframed as design issues
• Correctable points become visible
• You are less likely to be ignored, and life becomes easier
10. A One-Sentence Summary
• Much of the difficulty in modern life does not come from human problems,
but from differences in processing order between humans and AI
• What matters is not the ability to be evaluated,
but the ability to enter the evaluation process