Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Cliff Sosin argues that viewing intelligence as an unbounded scaler that eventually becomes godlike is an intellectual mistake. Instead, he suggests intelligence is more like a ratio or a gadget used to interpolate between facts, and its utility is fundamentally limited when applied to complex dynamic systems like weather or human interaction.
“What people have wrong there is they're missing what are the real limits of what intelligence can do. And maybe another way to put it, if you're thinking about intelligence as like an unbounded scaler at the height of a tree, isn't correct. What you should really think about intelligence as is more like a ratio. like the roundness of a ball. And intelligence is a gadget.”