big ideas
Tech is going to get much bigger.
Packy McCormack argues that we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. “What happens when energy, intelligence, and labor get cheap?” ~ learn more
Tag: intelligence
better doing
Reasonably intelligent people tend to overestimate how smart everyone else is.
“Fortunately, the PISA website has sample math questions from the 2012 assessment, corresponding to each of the six different levels of difficulty, as well as statistics on the percentage of 15-16 year old students from each of the participating countries […]
under the microscope
Using DNA to predict intelligence
A short and intriguing research paper. “Thousands of DNA variants have been identified that – aggregated into genome-wide polygenic scores (GPS) – account for more than 10% of the variance in phenotypic intelligence. The intelligence GPS is now one of […]
under the microscope
The thousand brains theory of intelligence.
A new theory for how the neocortex works, and its implications for AI. | learn more