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I've also heard of human professors, having learned their academic knowledge from other human professors and books with big words, regurgitating less precise and less nuanced knowledge, that others learn from and regurgitate to others...

Did Einstein, Neumann or Feynam surpass their professors? If the measure is scientific progress then yes but if the measure is professing then NO.

When you finish reading "The Feynam Lectures" you feel unstoppable but then you open a problem book and youre stomped because youve just picked up someone elses mental model.

A good professor holds your hand just enough for you to build your own mental model and doesnt just regurgitate his own model. [0]

[0] https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuiti...

>for some reason

AGI

AGI may not even be possible. Those professors are likely just pattern matching for 80-something years. I’ll grant you they seem to get increasingly good at it with enough training, but it’s not real intelligence.