Intelligence Was Never the Bottleneck — Agency Is
santoshpanda · x · 2026-11-01
A widely-shared observation: everyone now has access to intelligence smarter than any human ever, yet it hasn't moved the needle for most people — individual intelligence was never the bottleneck; agency is.
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