Humanity's Greatest Achievement May Be an Intelligence That Surpasses Us
VraserX · x · 2026-11-10
VraserX offers a big-picture take: humanity's greatest achievement may not be discovering physics, colonizing the galaxy, or curing aging, but creating an intelligence capable of doing all of those better than we can — and ironically, some would consider that humanity's greatest failure.
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