A X debate argues ASI may not need a “superintelligent internet” of training data
___Patrice___ · x · 2026-07-29
The poster rejects the claim that superintelligence needs an “internet of superintelligent literature” to train on. The rebuttal argues by analogy: computers did not need human-level chess data to exceed human chess players, so the absence of explicitly superintelligent text may not rule out ASI.
The underlying point is that capability can surpass the training distribution, so the existence of a matching “superintelligent corpus” is not obviously a prerequisite for systems to become superhuman.
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