A superhuman AI could make people better at learning, the post argues
_arohan_ · x · 2026-07-27
The post argues that a superhuman system could make humans better through learning, potentially helping us “reach for the stars.”
In the reply, the author uses AlphaGo as an analogy: if it had been trained on human games and then used scalable self-play, it might have surpassed humans while still helping human Go players improve. The takeaway is that AlphaGo did, in fact, appear to improve human Go playing ability.
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