AI trained on the fraction of human intelligence that fit the page
r0ck3t23 · x · 2026-10-16
A long-form essay argues that we've long equated intelligence with test scores, degrees and publications, dismissing everything unwritable as "intuition."
- A surgeon's paper gets cited; a nurse's 30-year ability to spot what monitors miss is called "experience." A physicist's equation is genius; a mechanic's ear for a fault is "just a skill." The distinction was never depth — only what fits a page.
- Core claim: we trained AI on that surviving fraction and called it "the sum of human knowledge." It isn't — it's the writable, storable, indexable part, skewed toward those with access to recording systems.
- We know how many books humanity wrote; we have no idea how many libraries we buried — understanding that lived in hands and eyes and passed person to person, vanishing when the chain broke.
- Outlook: AI is beginning to learn from movement, video and the physical world, so some intelligence that never fit the page may finally have a format that can hold it.
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