Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck
He looked at me with something best summarized as pity.I told him what I believe: that in the age of AI, medicine will be bottlenecked more than ever by regulation and the grind of clinical trials, and that billions poured into faster pre-clinical research won’t touch that problem, unsexy as it is. I brought up housing: we’ve had the technology to build better housing for decades, yet it’s more expensive than ever, because housing is a question of political will, not pure capability.Ruxandra's Substack is a reader-supported publication. Surely, a smart person like me should know that AI, or better said, AGI will be hyperpersuasive soon – already on a bunch of benchmarks it exceeds professional debaters at persuasion.
- ▪He looked at me with something best summarized as pity.I told him what I believe: that in the age of AI, medicine will be bottlenecked more than ever by regulation and the grind of clinical trials, and that billions poured into faster pre-c
- ▪I brought up housing: we’ve had the technology to build better housing for decades, yet it’s more expensive than ever, because housing is a question of political will, not pure capability.Ruxandra's Substack is a reader-supported publicatio
- ▪Surely, a smart person like me should know that AI, or better said, AGI will be hyperpersuasive soon – already on a bunch of benchmarks it exceeds professional debaters at persuasion.
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Intelligence is not the main bottleneckConfessions of a naive hamster: why the smartest people in the room keep missing that intelligence is often not the main bottleneck in the real worldRuxandra TesloJul 21, 2026542103124ShareEdit: To be clear, I'm not saying everyone or even a majority of people in the SF tech scene think this way. But some certainly do (e.g. the opening conversation is verbatim) and this post is about a particular core scene whose views carry disproportionate weight in the discourse and in policymaking.At a recent dinner, someone from an AI lab asked me, quite bluntly , why I do what I do — why I write about the regulatory bottlenecks to medical progress, why I spend my time on policies related to clinical trials.
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