What Zvi Mowshowitz thinks about measuring intelligence
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what he thinks it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade his own past calls.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Zvi Mowshowitz has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsHigh performers start out with an edge that motivates more work with increasing returns to scale, then work more and harder than everyone else, and end up acquiring a vast array of related skills as they climb the entire associated tech tree.
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Their wordsThe jump from Sol to Astra is larger than the jump from Fable 5 to Fable 5.1. This is a big deal. Astra is the best model for what one would broadly call ‘ambitious projects,’ and likely has the highest raw intelligence factor of any model.