Superintelligence May Learn More from Tiny Experiments, Bypassing Massive Compute
jxmnop · x · 2026-08-05
The author shares a profound insight regarding superintelligence: human AI researchers might rely on massive compute simply because we are intellectually limited in extrapolating from existing results.
A smarter intelligence might not need brute-force scaling, potentially extracting equal or greater insights from tiny experiments or simulations.
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