Intelligence translates to power more directly if you compare humans to mice, not humans to humans
AndyMasley · x · 2026-10-24
AI commentator Andy Masley argues that intelligence translates to power far more directly once you stop framing it as "smart humans vs. human society" and start thinking in terms of the human-to-mouse gap — implying superintelligence's impact can't be extrapolated from smarter-individual analogies.
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