Why old “machine intelligence” talk now feels like another era
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-20
The post reacts to a 2006 interview excerpt and says it now feels like reading a document from a much older era.
The image argues that the phrase “machine intelligence” once sat near broad philosophical questions about mind and origins, alongside debates like intelligent design. Today, the same phrase has shifted into a different conceptual world: labor, alignment, scientific automation, military power, corporate concentration, and benchmarked engineering systems. The author’s point is that the semantic bridge between those eras has collapsed, making the old wording feel quaint in hindsight.
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