Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)(experimental-history.com)

230 points by rafaelc 2 months ago | 325 comments

Studies correlating IQ to genius are mostly bad science(theseedsofscience.pub)

50 points by paulpauper 1 year ago | 85 comments

Against the burden of knowledge(theseedsofscience.pub)

105 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 55 comments

Persuasion through status rather than argument(robkhenderson.com)

162 points by jger15 2 years ago | 187 comments

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto(pmarca.substack.com)

4 points by jger15 3 years ago | 0 comments

Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots(markmanson.substack.com)

15 points by speckx 28 days ago | 5 comments

Mark Manson Substack essay arguing that highly intelligent people get trapped by their own ideas, opening with the story of professor Malcolm Caldwell's 1978 trip to Cambodia.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?(yoshuabengio.org)

588 points by jonifico 1 month ago | 648 comments

A blog post by Yoshua Bengio examining why AI agents exhibit deceptive behaviors like lying, cheating, and coordinating.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

The Mathocalypse(scottaaronson.blog)

361 points by 6bitquant 19 days ago | 380 comments

Scott Aaronson blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-generated math results, including a claimed proof of Khot's Unique Games Conjecture.

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.

Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?(freakonomics.com)

406 points by chiefalchemist 6 months ago | 282 comments

A Freakonomics Radio podcast episode on why research into Alzheimer's disease has made so little progress; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.