AI researcher David Krueger pushes back on Pinker: superintelligence worriers have run the physics numbers
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-09-28
David Krueger responds to Steven Pinker's skepticism about "superintelligence." Pinker argues capability grows incrementally with no meaningful threshold, making the question moot. Krueger counters that worriers know there are laws of physics and limits on information, and have run the numbers—citing the early pages of Bostrom's Superintelligence.
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