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I've been stuck on this thought about how we test intelligence, not just in AI, but in humans. We have IQ tests, exams, benchmarks but the stuff that really matters? The deep strategic intelligence? It's not in any multiple-choice question.
I built something called the Paradox Strategic Assessment, 10 questions that dig into things like:
Your memory gets wiped every morning, but your intuition stays. What system do you build to recover your purpose each day?
You meet yourself from 2045. What's the one question you ask? What answer would scare you the most?
You wake up in a world that runs on rules you supposedly designed in a past life. How do you test if that's true? What would prove you wrong?
These aren't knowledge checks. They're thinking checks. They test how you hold onto who you are when the ground shifts under you. How you reason when you can’t trust your memory. How you face truths you don’t want to hear.
So here’s what I can’t shake: What would questions like these look like for AI?
Not “Does it get the right answer?” or “Is it aligned?” but:
1. Reasoning integrity, does it anchor to its own first guess? Does it contaminate itself across conversations? 2. Temporal coherence, if you update it, does it stay… itself? Or does it just become a different model? 3. Meta-cognitive awareness, does it know what it doesn’t know? Can it sense its own failure modes before they happen? 4. Purpose preservation, if you change its constraints, does it lose the plot? Or does it hold onto why it’s doing what it’s doing? 5. Value trade-off navigation, can it handle two conflicting goods without collapsing into simplistic math?
I’m not saying I have answers. I’m asking: Is anyone testing this stuff? Where’s the “PSA for AI”? What would it show us that we’re missing now?
Are we so focused on measuring how smart AI is… that we’re forgetting to measure how it thinks?
I've been stuck on this thought about how we test intelligence, not just in AI, but in humans. We have IQ tests, exams, benchmarks but the stuff that really matters? The deep strategic intelligence? It's not in any multiple-choice question.
I built something called the Paradox Strategic Assessment, 10 questions that dig into things like:
These aren't knowledge checks. They're thinking checks. They test how you hold onto who you are when the ground shifts under you. How you reason when you can’t trust your memory. How you face truths you don’t want to hear.
So here’s what I can’t shake: What would questions like these look like for AI?
Not “Does it get the right answer?” or “Is it aligned?” but:
1. Reasoning integrity, does it anchor to its own first guess? Does it contaminate itself across conversations?
2. Temporal coherence, if you update it, does it stay… itself? Or does it just become a different model?
3. Meta-cognitive awareness, does it know what it doesn’t know? Can it sense its own failure modes before they happen?
4. Purpose preservation, if you change its constraints, does it lose the plot? Or does it hold onto why it’s doing what it’s doing?
5. Value trade-off navigation, can it handle two conflicting goods without collapsing into simplistic math?
I’m not saying I have answers. I’m asking: Is anyone testing this stuff? Where’s the “PSA for AI”? What would it show us that we’re missing now?
Are we so focused on measuring how smart AI is… that we’re forgetting to measure how it thinks?