Why the argument about how capable AI is turns out to be a reading we already have, not a gap we have yet to close. Ask ten people when machine intelligence becomes general and you get a spread of dates. Ask a hundred, and the natural expectation is that the spread tightens — the way … Continue reading The Disagreement Is the Measurement
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The Competence Trap: Why Being Good at Many Things Makes Self-Assessment Nearly Impossible
We all know the type who announces their skills on social media. "Crisis management is one of my deepest competencies," they tweet, while actively demonstrating the opposite. The irony is obvious to everyone but them. But recognizing others' inflated self-assessments is easy. The harder question is: how do we avoid the same trap ourselves? The … Continue reading The Competence Trap: Why Being Good at Many Things Makes Self-Assessment Nearly Impossible
