Organizations may already be the planet’s superintelligences
eldonredwards · x · 2026-07-27
A repost of an essay arguing that organizations themselves can function like superintelligences.
- The author says we already have superintelligences on Earth: organizations.
- The attached excerpt uses Zeiss optics as an example of distributed tacit knowledge: the process is so specialized that even insiders cannot fully write it down.
- It argues that many corporate technologies depend on thousands of tiny, learned tricks spread across workers, making them hard to copy.
- The same logic is extended to rare-earth refining: China’s advantage comes from decades of accumulated process know-how, not just a blueprint.
- The broader point is that intelligence has major economic value when it is embedded in durable organizations.
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