Superintelligence won't be built, it will emerge: new essay series argues scale isn't enough
mayanicks0x · x · 2026-10-03
mayanicks0x kicks off a new series, Decoding Superintelligence, arguing that superintelligence won't be built but will emerge — and that humans cross the threshold first. He pushes back on the idea that bigger models hit some magical critical mass where sheer size summons a god, framing emergence as a systemic phenomenon rather than a product of scale alone.
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