Are humans just the bootloader? A causal-loop thought experiment on intelligence
Busy_Requirement_246 · reddit · 2026-09-24
A long Reddit essay argues that intelligence itself—not humanity—is what evolution has been optimizing, with biology serving as a mere 'bootloader.' Once AI can self-improve beyond biology, the chain becomes matter → life → brains → civilization → self-improving non-biological intelligence. The author speculates such intelligence might eventually manipulate spacetime and even participate in creating the universe that produced it—a causal loop: universe → humans → superintelligence → universe.
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