Do models become alien above an intelligence threshold? A dev's observation
MajmudarAdam · x · 2026-09-08
The author shares a counterintuitive firsthand observation: there seems to be an intelligence threshold below which models feel familiar and legible, but above which their thought processes and action sets become opaque and alien—structured yet uninterpretable to humans. He asks whether others have had the same experience.
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