What Naval Ravikant thinks about creativity
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Naval Ravikant has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsHowever, what they lack still is a lot of core human skills, like single-shot learning. Humans can learn from just one example. The raw creativity of human beings where they can connect anything to anything.
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Their wordsI actually don’t think that’s correct. I think creativity is much more in the domain of coming up with an answer that was not predictable or foreseeable from the question and from the elements that were already known.
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Their wordsThere’s another form of creativity where it starts inventing entirely new scientific theories that then turn out to be true. I don’t think we’re anywhere near that, but I could be wrong. The AIs have been very surprising, so I don’t want to get too much in the business of making prophecies and predictions, but I don’t think that just throwing more compute at the current AI models—short of some breakthrough invention—is going to get us there.