SMART – Why Outsiders Are the New Geniuses

TOPICS COVERED:

- Jeffrey Hinton and the rise of AI irrelevance

- Pattern recognition, synthesis, and cognitive flexibility

- Douglas Hofstadter, Steve Jobs, Joy Buolamwini, and Tony Stark as intelligence templates

- Why generalists win in an era of disruption

- The Human OS for nonlinear, post-AGI thinkers

MENTIONED THINKERS & SOURCES:

- David Epstein – Range

- Douglas Hofstadter – Gödel, Escher, Bach

- Joy Buolamwini – Coded Bias

- James Flynn – The Flynn Effect

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 – What intelligence really means now
02:45 – Acumen, pattern recognition, and synthesis
03:57 – The value of hybrid skill sets
05:13 – Intelligence born from experience
06:38 - Integration of All Three
09:13 - Closing Thoughts

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