"The willingness and drive to actively engage in abstract reasoning and apply cross-domain lessons, distinct from raw cognitive horsepower."
Intellectual Agency
The willingness and drive to actively engage in abstract reasoning and apply cross-domain lessons, distinct from raw cognitive horsepower.
Where This Idea Comes From
The title concept of the essay: as large language models commoditize raw computation, the scarcer trait becomes whether a person actually engages in abstraction and cross-domain transfer when given an infinite-patience sparring partner, rather than just taking the answer and leaving.