In the AI era, the highest human value isn't creating anymore—it's curating. Terence Tao just dropped the perfect frame (in his convo with Mark Chen): we’re shifting from “intellectual monopolists” (the lone chef who owns the secret recipe) to “intellectual curators” (the discerning food critic who tastes 100 AI-generated dishes and instantly knows which one is genius). AI will spit out infinite proofs, code, strategies, content. Your edge? The taste, judgment, and storytelling to pick the right 1%, sequence them, and tell the story that matters. Math is already there: mathematicians no longer grind out every path—they scan the explosion of AI-generated proof sketches and say, “This one has soul. Merge it with that one. Dead end.” Production is commoditized. Curation is the new moat.Welcome to the age of the Intellectual Curator. Your superpower isn’t output. It’s taste.