Calling superintelligence "science fiction" is an appeal to ridicule, author argues
gleech · x · 2026-10-13
Responding to the "superintelligence is science fiction" argument, gleech links Wikipedia's entry on the appeal to ridicule — an informal fallacy that dismisses an argument by mocking it as absurd rather than engaging its substance. The implication: ridicule is not refutation, and LLMs' own trajectory from science fiction to reality proves the rhetoric weak.
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