Sublime

Intelligence is traditionally viewed as the ability to think and learn. Yet in a turbulent world, there’s another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn.

A stunning essay in the FT on the international decline in the ability to read, reason, focus, and learn new things. It began or accelerated in the early 2010s. It's hitting teens AND adults. Self-report and objective scores. by @jburnmurdoch https://t.co/gPGrShE2dk... See more

Rory Sutherland on why group decision making is often worse than personal judgement https://t.co/Gj6CRLLF40

"As intelligence becomes practically free, our real constraint is no longer accessing brainpower but knowing what to do with it. Successful organizations and people will know how to ask the right question, evaluate the answers and act wisely in response." https://t.co/Yu3opX6lMT

OpenAI had a significant lead from summer 2022 through spring 2024 when Google and Anthropic caught up to GPT-4. 7ish quarters of dominance as a result of being the first to aggressively bet on the traditional scaling “law” for pre-training. Being first to reasoning with o1 only led to a few months of advantage.___LINEB... See more

The issue is that in order to learn to think critically, problem-solve, understand abstract concepts, reason through novel problems, and evaluate the AI’s output, we need subject matter expertise. An expert educator, with knowledge of their students and classroom, and with pedagogical content knowledge, can evaluate an AI-written syllabus or an AI-

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