Why won't intelligence plateau like air travel did? Skeptic asks the scaling bulls
dbasch · x · 2026-09-12
dbasch challenges the endless-scaling narrative: nobody has put forth a good case for why intelligence won't plateau the way air travel did — in the 1960s it was obvious to everyone we'd be colonizing galaxies by now, yet aviation speeds have long stagnated.
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