'General' intelligence is a myth: human minds are narrow savanna specializations, not yardsticks
YogeshMalik · x · 2026-10-01
YogeshMalik argues that we call it 'general' intelligence as if human minds were general — they are not. Human minds are a narrow specialization for surviving savannas, reading faces, and gossiping about tribes. We are not the yardstick of generality; we are one oddly shaped point on it. A challenge to the default assumption that human intelligence is the benchmark for AGI.
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