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Boundary Intelligence

Resurrecting an old thread of thought

Venkatesh Rao
Dec 02, 2023
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This research note is part of the Mediocre Computing series

Way back in October 2017, a time that seems like prehistory now as far as AI is concerned, I wrote a casual and short (for me) Twitter thread about intelligence that suddenly seems a lot more relevant. It was about a distinction between boundary intelligence and interior intelligence.

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