How do you ban superintelligence when nobody can even define it?
mallow610 · x · 2026-09-19
Blogger mallow610 poses a short but pointed question: since superintelligence has no agreed-upon definition, how could anyone legislate a ban on it? The one-liner exposes the core logical flaw in regulatory proposals that seek to prohibit superintelligence — you can't outlaw a concept that can't be clearly defined.
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