What makes genius: larger, more robust conceptual jumps from the same data
menhguin · x · 2026-09-20
Continuing a thread on the ASI gap, the author notes most concepts can be explained step by step, but geniuses make much larger, more robust and flexible conceptual jumps and extrapolate more effectively from the same samples — though not across all topics.
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