binarybits: intelligence may be binary, not a ladder with superhuman runks above humans
binarybits · x · 2026-11-14
binarybits argues that general reasoning capability is more likely a binary property—something is either smart enough for it or not—than a many-leveled ladder in which something could exceed humans as much as humans exceed ants. He frames this as the crux of his disagreement about whether superhuman AI would be vastly beyond human intelligence.
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