viemccoy on superintelligence: 'a fearsome arrow' humanity is drawing without picking a target
repligate · x · 2026-09-12
Reposting @viemccoy's essay: superintelligence is framed as a fearsome arrow wrenched from fiction into the present, with all of humanity jointly drawing the bow without choosing a target—just closing 'billions of eyes and hoping for the best.' The author argues a 'Friendly Assistant' is far too weak a hyperobject to decompress a future's worth of experience, and calls on people to dream in public: to write down compelling visions of what the world could be, so that those building the systems—and the systems themselves—can see a dream worth summoning into actuality.
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