Superintelligence Triggers Deep Cognitive Divides
binarybits · x · 2026-07-11
This reply discusses how people often hold fundamentally different intuitions about what "superintelligence" means, making it difficult for both sides to have a truly meaningful debate.
The author mentions finding many claims on the "AI 2040: Plan A" website hard to believe, arguing that the core disagreement lies in:
- One camp believing superintelligence will border on "omnipotence"
- The other camp disagreeing
He describes this difference as a profound "epistemological divide."
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