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The interviewer describes a prior conception of intelligence as traversing the combinational closure of core knowledge and abstractions in the brain.

Tim Scarfe · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026

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“It's because we thought that intelligence was like we have this core knowledge, we have these kind of abstractions in our brain and intelligence is just traversing the combinational closure and the more intelligent.”
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