Welcome to my new blog! To be honest, I’m a little surprised someone is reading this.
Rate of Progress Part 1: The Value of Intelligence
Everyone and their toaster is predicting that AI will change everything. Whole industries vaporized. All jobs obsolete—next week, apparently. You, jobless and serene, writing haikus in a meadow while a bot files your taxes, wins a Pulitzer, and gets optioned for a Netflix series. The only question: what calendar are these predictors using? Where does the exuberance come from? It starts with our overvaluation of intelligence Intelligence, as it turns out, might be one of the most overrated traits of all time. It doesn’t make people happier. Or kinder. Or better at relationships. ...