There may be a speed of light for intelligence — a skeptic's case against superintelligence
dbasch · x · 2026-10-20
The author argues our understanding of intelligence may be fundamentally wrong: it could have a hard limit, like a "speed of light," with phases. Combinatorial complexity makes some problems intractable regardless of intelligence; intelligence itself is likely overvalued and not the bottleneck for most interesting problems. He faults techno-optimists for cherry-picking progress, and bets believers in an "AI god" curing disease are in for a rude awakening.
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