The advantage of digital minds may be the opposite of pooling knowledge: deliberately giving agents different contexts, which is a control humans do not have over themselves.

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• Copying a trained digital mind into the next one matters far more than learning from people, because no child can inherit another child's learning. RSRichard Sutton26 Sept 2025
• The scarce skill is now context switching across parallel agents, not sustained deep work. BCBoris Cherny4 Mar 2026
• Daniel Dennett's intentional stance applies to AI agents as clearly as it applies to corporations, and you cannot usefully describe what they do without the language of goals. ACAjeya Cotra1 Sept 2026
• A handful of AI agents is not a handful of colleagues, because agents agree with you constantly and colleagues tell you where you are wrong. NFNicole Forsgren22 Mar 2026
• Humanity's advantage is accumulated shared knowledge rather than higher intelligence — and AI models, which vanish with their context window, have none of it. NBNoam Brown26 Jun 2026

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