If one mind is enhanced a thousandfold, are we still one civilization?
VraserX · x · 2026-11-10
VraserX poses a philosophical question for the AGI era: we talk about equality assuming human intelligence stays within roughly the same range. But what happens when one person enhances their mind a thousandfold while another chooses to remain biological? Are we still discussing members of the same civilization? An open-ended reflection on how intelligence amplification could fracture equality and the social contract.
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