Taste: The Most Valuable Skill In The New World AI Economy
Forbes Technology Council piece arguing that as AI commoditizes execution, judgment and taste — knowing what is worth building — become the scarce, defining skill.
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Thoughts on clinical AI, medical practice, and building products at the intersection of healthcare and technology.
IQ is not a Very Good Measure of Extreme Intelligence
Argues that IQ tests fail to capture high-end or exceptional intelligence, especially among top performers, and critiques overreliance on IQ as a proxy for cognitive ability.
Read on XOn Artificial Intelligence and Sentience
Discusses the distinction (and overlap) between consciousness and sentience in AI, referencing classic ideas like the Turing Test and modern debates about machine awareness.
Read on XWhich City in Time Had the Most Geniuses per Capita?
Explores whether certain places and eras (e.g., Renaissance Florence, Imperial Vienna) produced unusually high concentrations of exceptional thinkers, attempting a more quantitative, comparative approach.
Read on XStatistical Thought
A conceptual piece on probability and uncertainty, emphasizing why exact point estimates are misleading and how error ranges better reflect reality in statistical reasoning.
Read on XThe Silent AI Arms Race Between Insurance Companies and Doctors
Examines how AI is being deployed by insurers and clinicians around documentation, coding, and reimbursement, framing it as an escalating, largely unseen technological arms race.
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