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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 Apr 2018
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    Late night theory: AIs and robots will replace all the geniuses and all the dumbest functional humans, leaving only the mediocre human minds as the new fittest that survive. AlphaGoZero replaces the geniuses Very small shell scripts replace idiots We mediocre types win

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 Apr 2018
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        Not even kidding. What is common to genius and low-skill domains is that they tend to be bounded. Genius domains just have more richness for intuition to work on Mediocre intelligences tend to deal with the open, tedious messy domains where neither genius, nor stupidity work

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 Apr 2018
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        The straight-up arms race scenario of trying to be “smarter” than machines always seemed strategically wrong. John Henry wrong. This “dealing with open systems” is a kind of intelligence but an oblique kind. One that projects to mediocrity on regular intelligence vector.

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      2. David Dellanave‏Verified account @ddn 24 Apr 2018
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        I wrote about this recently. I’m a big fan of mediocrity across a wide range of domains. It’s much more useful than excellence in one.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Apr 2018
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        #TeamMediocre

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      2. brrr Seitz‏ @BillSeitz 24 Apr 2018
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        "B Ark: not worth the cycles"

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Apr 2018
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        Precisely. People forget the biggest B Ark lesson: they’re the ones who survive and thrive

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      2. Karl Brown‏ @karlwbrown 24 Apr 2018
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        Douglas Adams had a great bit about this in HHGTTG - a colony of humans divided into 3 ships - 1) artists/models/sports stars/CEOs 2) plumbers/carpenters/farmers 3) middle management/sales people (the mediocre) ship #3 was diverted on purpose, ending up on early Earth...

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Apr 2018
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        Yup the golgafrinchan b ark story 🙂

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      1. Varun Adibhatla‏ @vr00n 24 Apr 2018
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        If intelligence could be traded like derivatives ;) AAA intelligence. Sub-prime intelligence. Junk intelligence

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      2. Isaac M. Morehouse‏ @isaacmorehouse 25 Apr 2018
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        Interested @robinhanson thoughts on this possibility

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      3. Robin Hanson‏Verified account @robinhanson 25 Apr 2018
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        "genius" is too ambiguous a category. High IQ folks would be replaced in a few games and abstract theory tasks, but not in most things, until they replace everyone in most everything.

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