Essay argues human enhancement must pace AI progress to avoid being out-evolved
zetalyrae · x · 2026-09-11
- Developer viemccoy published an essay RSI vs. Human Enhancement framing two futures: blindly accelerating toward recursive self-improvement, or deliberately enhancing humans alongside AI.
- His core claim: pacing progress and ensuring human enhancement is the only way humanity avoids being out-evolved while keeping the dream of superintelligence.
- The piece is a philosophical AGI-strategy argument about autonomy, alignment of trajectories, and whether humans can retain agency and 'a claim to the stars' in a superintelligent future.
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