Intelligence

The reason experts are so split on whether or not we're on an exponential path to AI is that intelligence is multi-dimensional. You can be both exponentially exploding/scaling in one dimension and stagnating in another. You can be both superhuman and subhuman at the same time. People tend to focus on the dimensions most salient to their inclination... See more

i don't know any LLMs smarter than humans but i definitely know humans dumber than LLMs

"I grew up implicitly thinking that intelligence was this, like really special human thing and kind of somewhat magical. And I now think that it's sort of a fundamental property of matter..." @sama

there’s lots of successful people who don’t necessarily have high raw iq but they have high “fuck around and find out” attitude ppl who say fuck it and do the thing > ppl who overthink and get paralyzed by fear

A lot of very smart people work in strange ways / with a lot of quirks (e.g. contemplating for hours and appearing to do nothing, while then suddenly having 100x output burst). This usually makes them not a great fit for traditional corporate world, where you often have to fake… Show more