Taleb: AI Is Making High-IQ, Low-Imagination People Obsolete
intellectronica · x · 2026-09-24
Nassim Taleb argues that people who score well on IQ tests but lack imagination are being rendered obsolete by AI, positioning test-style intelligence as exactly what large models can replicate.
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