Noah Smith pushes back on Ilya: mass-producing intelligence is worth celebrating
inductionheads · x · 2026-10-07
Ilya Sutskever posted that "if you value intelligence above all other human qualities, you're gonna have a bad time." Columnist Noah Smith responded that while he doesn't rank intelligence above all else, he would still be happy we figured out how to mass-produce it — a sharp clash of views on what AI's rise says about human values.
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