Gary Bernhardt: cognitive complexity sets the ceiling, for humans and AI alike
sidjustice_ · x · 2026-09-16
In a reshared exchange, Gary Bernhardt answers "why does it matter?": cognitive complexity sets the ceiling for what you can do, whether "you" is human or not. Limited attention and context capacity is universal — whether it's attention heads and context tokens, or ordinary attention and memory in your meat.
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