Boundary Intelligence: Why What You Can Access Matters More Than What You Know
Original excerpt
A new, powerful definition of intelligence is emerging out of the AI field: “boundary intelligence.”
I first came across it in this excellent piece _To Know Is To Stage_by Venkatesh Rao, which appropriately, was co-authored by an LLM.
Let me step back and explain what boundary intelligence means (mixing my own words with paraphrasing from that piece).
For most of human history, intelligence was mainly defined as “strong memory.” Information was so hard to access in the first place that your ability to recall specific facts and details from memory was considered the highest mark of intelligence.
When the printing press arrived, that definition changed for good. Memorizing long passages became…
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