# AI Does Not Have to Take the Fun Out of Progress by Dave Blundin > "Because AI is fundamentally intelligent and fundamentally capable of perpetually improving the user experience internally, it doesn't have to be like aviation turned out. It can actually be insanely fun and insanely cool and feel good to everybody along the way. We just have to divert enough of the compute toward [perpetually improving the user experience]. If we don't get greedy at the finish line or complacent at the finish line, it can feel so much better than any innovation in human history." > **— Dave Blundin**, *Moonshots #309, recorded November 6, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Source dossier:** [[research/Midterms, Politics, AI, and Infrastructure Research - Moonshots|Midterms, Politics, AI, and Infrastructure Research — Moonshots]]. - **Direct publication or recording:** [recording, 00:57:20–00:58:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF-ADiC7Khs&t=3440s). - **Editorial form:** The readable quotation retains visible brackets and/or an ellipsis for source-supported clarification or omission. The candidate map below records the exact treatment. - **Context and treatment:** Dave Blundin contrasts aviation's degraded passenger experience with AI's capacity to improve its own user experience and makes sustained compute allocation, restraint, and attention the conditions for a better outcome; [recording, 00:57:20–00:58:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF-ADiC7Khs&t=3440s). Bracket replaces `that mission` with its explicit antecedent from the same turn. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/The Politics of AI Infrastructure|The Politics of AI Infrastructure]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American Infrastructure|American Infrastructure]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American|American Culture Collection]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War|The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Political Party That Inherits Super Intelligence in 2028|The Political Party That Inherits Super Intelligence in 2028]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Dave Blundin|Dave Blundin]] - [[wiki/Scientific Acceleration|Scientific Acceleration]] - [[wiki/Moonshots 309|Moonshots 309]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Because AI is fundamentally intelligent and fundamentally capable of perpetually improving the user experience internally, it doesn't have to be like aviation turned out. It can actually be insanely fun and insanely cool and feel good to everybody along the way. We just have to divert enough of the compute toward [perpetually improving the user experience]. If we don't get greedy at the finish line or complacent at the finish line, it can feel so much better than any innovation in human history." — Dave Blundin, Moonshots #309, recorded November 6, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-dave-blundin-ai-does-not-have-to-take-the-fun-out-of-progress ```