Ethan Mollick on picturing superintelligence: borrow the D&D trick for 25-Intelligence villains
emollick · x · 2026-10-04
Ethan Mollick offers a mental model for picturing superintelligence, borrowed from running high-Intelligence villains in Dungeons & Dragons: don't try to out-plan the players. Instead, whatever they do or roll, play it as if the big bad saw it coming. It's a trick for grasping the feel of an intelligence far beyond your own without pretending you can simulate it.
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