Intelligence

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

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…

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

Sometimes I’ve had this feeling like someone is so much smarter than me and therefore I have no hope of competing. But usually what is really going on is that they are just more obsessed than me. Intelligence is good, and some amount is required, but the obsession is better.

Intelligence without risk is an empty thought, as is an intelligence whose realization takes no time. Risk and time are the presuppositions for the history of intelligence in which nothing is given in advance and nothing is completed as the totality of that history.