Intelligence

The Manfield amendments were a huge blow to Project Whorl. Panic set in among the Trustees as they scheduled urgent meetings with top officials from the Nixon administration, including the president himself. Out of those meetings came a brilliant idea. The Gang of Eight has to be briefed on all special access programs, even those that are waived an... See more

Some people are intelligent but don’t have a lick of smarts. Their ability to succeed in the world might surprise you on the downside.

Others lack intelligence but gush smarts. Their potential will surprise you on the upside.

On rare occasions you meet people who are both intelligent and smart. They run laps around everyone.

I’d define intelligence vs... See more

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

In late 1970, Lockheed was near bankruptcy because of the large debt they had built up to fund the L-1011 Tristar commercial aircraft program. They approached the Nixon administration for a $250 million loan guarantee to avoid insolvency. That is about $1.9 billion in today’s dollars. Here was an opportunity to transfer the assets to a private defe... See more

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