Intelligence is not the main bottleneck

Global Business Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:08:24 GMT Moderate confidence — 64/100

Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying everyone or even a majority of people in the SF tech scene think this way.
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.

Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying everyone or even a majority of people in the SF tech scene think this way.
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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