As superintelligence surpasses human understanding, we return to a world of 'magic' — attributing phenomena to models and daemons
MinqiJiang · x · 2026-10-29
Minqi Jiang offers an analogy: as superintelligence transforms every science and engineering field beyond human understanding, humanity will return to a world of magic and superstition — except we'll attribute the world's phenomena not to gods and spirits, but to models and daemons.
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