Philosopher Jeff Sebo Pushes Back on Pinker's Sorites Argument Against Superintelligence
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-28
Philosopher Jeff Sebo responds to Pinker's skepticism about superintelligence. Pinker's argument resembles a sorites paradox: since intelligence spans countless degrees between current LLMs and nature's limits, no meaningful threshold exists. Sebo argues this is a bad argument — a threshold can be vague, conventional, or context-sensitive while still marking a difference that matters enormously in practice.
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