The 'Prize' of AGI: A Species-Level Transformation
mathemagic1an · x · 2026-08-27
The post lists the potential 'prizes' of achieving AGI: inventing superconductors, solving diseases and extending healthspan, understanding human cognition and consciousness, and unifying General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics. The author argues it is hard to view this as anything other than a species-level transformation.
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