signull: Human EQ is rare because its inference cost is brutally expensive
signulll · x · 2026-11-03
signull argues that emotional intelligence is rare because it's computationally expensive: modeling another person's internal state in real time requires suppressing your own frame, running a parallel simulation, and continuously updating it. He quips that the "inference costs" of human EQ likely exceed the most expensive AI model today.
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