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"We have built an entire evaluation system around counting things that can be counted, and it turns out that what actually matters is the one thing that can't be"

You thought this was about intelligence quotients, didn't you? It isn't. It's about another familiar usage of the word "intelligence". I think it exhumes a curious paradox about the word: we all think we know what it means, but when we pin it down, it vanishes.

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The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/

The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

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Simon Brooke 1d ago

Also, from the same essay:
"The department needs papers, because papers justify funding, and funding justifies the department. The student is the means of production. Whether that student walks out the door five years later as an independent thinker or a competent prompt engineer is, institutionally speaking, irrelevant. The incentive structure doesn't just fail to distinguish between Alice and Bob. It has no reason to try." — Minas Karamanis

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https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/

The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

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Simon Brooke 1d ago

And again, from this excellent essay:
"The results, in a strict practical sense, don't matter. What matters is the process of getting them: the development and application of methods, the training of minds, the creation of people who know how to think about hard problems. If you hand that process to a machine, you haven't accelerated science. You've removed the only part of it that anyone actually needed." — Minas Karamanis

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https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/

The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

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