Your Left Brain Doesn't Trade With Your Right — LessWrong
This is a tweet by Seb Krier that caught my eye. The exact person and exact points are incidental. It illustrates what to is a flaw in many 'economics' frames on AI. Expecting a model to do all the work, solve everything, come up with new innovations etc is probably not right. This was kinda the implicit assumption behind *some* interpretations of capabilities progress. The ‘single genius model’ overlooks the fact that inference costs and context windows are finite. (...) People overrate individual intelligence: most innovations are the product of social organisations (cooperation) and market dynamics (competition), not a single genius savant. (...) Most of the *value* and transformative changes we will get from AI will come from products, not models. The models are the cognitive raw power, the products are what makes them useful and adapted to what some user class actually needs. This seems to me missing something incredible important about what Artificial General Intelligence will
x Your Left Brain Doesn't Trade With Your Right — LessWrong AI Frontpage 53 Your Left Brain Doesn't Trade With Your Right by Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel 23rd May 2026 6 min read 22 53 [see also Four Ways Learning Economics makes you people dumber future AI] This is a tweet by Seb Krier that caught my eye. The exact person and exact points are incidental. It illustrates what to is a flaw in many 'economics' frames on AI. Expecting a model to do all the work, solve everything, come up with new innovations etc is probably not right. This was kinda the implicit assumption behind *some* interpret
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