Gary Marcus on being ahead of the curve: 'everyone thinks you're an idiot'
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-11-14
Gary Marcus quoted a line circulating on X — "The problem with being ahead of the curve is everyone thinks you're an idiot" — adding "story of my life."
It's a self-deprecating nod to his years as a prominent AI scaling skeptic whose contrarian takes were long dismissed by the mainstream, another chapter in the ongoing AI-circle debate around him.
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