Tyler Cowen

You're one of our best people, right?

You're frustrated by all kinds of things.

Okay, good.

I'll listen.

I'll be bottlenecked by time.

Just marketing.

Here's a simple way to put it.

Most of sub-Saharan Africa still does not have reliable clean water.

The intelligence required for that is not scarce.

We cannot so readily do it.

We are more in that position than we might like to think, but along other variables.

And taking advantage of the intelligence from strong AI is one of those.

I didn't agree with that post.

If you look at labor market data, the returns to IQ, as it translates into ages, they're amazingly low.

They're pretty insignificant.

And people who are very successful, they're very smart, but they're people who have, say, eight or nine areas where they're like, on a scale of one to ten, they're a nine.

Like, they have one area where they're just like an eleven and a half on a scale of one to ten.

And then on everything else, they're an eight to a nine and have a lot of determination.

And that's what leads to incredible success.

And IQ is one of those things, but it's not actually that important.