<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Here is the raw mathematics: some errors cost... > Here is the raw mathematics: some errors cost embarrassment, some cost money, and some terminate the organism making them. Intelligence is partly the ability to tell the difference before the experiment reaches its endpoint. **Source:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]], [[research/AI-Tech Doomers Publication/preimages/2026-09-17-article-route/articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Here is the raw mathematics: some errors cost embarrassment, some cost money, and some terminate the organism making them. Intelligence is partly the ability to tell the difference before the experiment reaches its endpoint.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-raw-mathematics-errors-experiment-reaches-endpoint ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->