Hypothesis: human learning is hill climbing — hard-to-verify tasks aren't relatively harder for AI
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-10-02
The author hypothesizes human learning is essentially hill climbing: we update faster with verifiable feedback. Hard-to-verify tasks are harder for AI overall, but not obviously harder relative to human capabilities, since humans rely on the same signal.
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