tszzl: Intelligence Scaling May Plateau Following an S-Curve
tszzl · x · 2026-07-06
Responding to discussions on intelligence scaling, AI researcher tszzl suggested that intelligence development is expected to follow a sigmoid curve, eventually plateauing at the 'information limit of thought on the current substrate.' He emphasized that this inflection point might occur in the very distant future—so far that machines may have already cracked the mysteries of the universe or even triggered a false vacuum collapse. This expresses a philosophical and scientific perspective on the limits of AGI capability growth.
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