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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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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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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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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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