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Once intelligence is too cheap to meter, the world will be unrecognizable.

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A LessWrong post argues that the idea of intelligence becoming "too cheap to meter" is a dream pushed by AI companies and accelerationists, and that while AI is already cheap at coding and math problems, spending time with current models complicates the claim.

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“"Intelligence too cheap to meter" is a dream peddled by AI companies and accelerationists. In a narrow sense it is already true: if intelligence means solving coding and mathematics problems, AI is cheap today.”
LessWrong, 29 Sept 2026, 15:14.

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