basic principle
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This is a basic principle: If AI lowers the cost of routine work, it raises the value of everything else.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
The basic principle is that, with time, ChatGPT is going to start handing out sponsored brand recommendations in its feedback—while Claude will never do such a thing.
From Slate • Feb. 8, 2026
“It starts with a very basic principle: Do you, as the boss, want to leave the job?”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026
Evolutionary biology explains this contrast through a basic principle: energy is limited, and species must divide it between reproduction and maintaining their bodies.
From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2026
He would thus have been familiar with the basic principle that objects appear smaller as they recede into the distance, a principle analysed by Euclid, and familiar in the Middle Ages.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
