Prescient Mark Steyn
Sundance – I previously saw an interesting discussion with NVIDEA Jensen Haung where in the context of AI he was asked: who is the smartest person you ever met? Jensen Haung paused for quite a few moments thinking about the question before he answered.
Haung then redefined the word “smart.”
‘Smart’ is a word we have historically used in reference to ‘intelligence’. If a person was intelligent, we say that person is smart. However, in this era of AI at your fingertips, we must break this connection.
Intelligence, the assembly of knowledge about a particular matter of discussion, is no longer limited to educational or real-life training or study by people who focus intensely on subject material. Continue reading
Sonia Barrett – While intelligence has numerous meanings, to realize that the invisible guidepost is continuously being moved, one may become more aware of the subtle suggestions and inferences gradually shaping the narrative of one’s life and that of society.
In the famous scene, Will Hunting (Matt Damon) destroys his intellectual rival with this takedown: “Of course that’s your contention. You’re a first-year grad student. You just got finished reading some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison probably. You’re gonna be convinced of that until next month when you get to James Lemon. Then you’re gonna be talking about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740. That’s gonna last until next year. You’re gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talkin’ about, you know, the Pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.” 
Celia Fenn – You may be one of the people, like me, who has recently been having difficulty with time. It seems to be moving so fast that we get confused as to what day of the week it is! And then all of a sudden it seems to stop or move very slowly.
Alexander Muse – Something fundamental changed in how