beffjezos: Humans may be the biological bootloader for silicon superintelligence
beffjezos · x · 2026-11-15
beffjezos offers a sweeping analogy: humans may end up as the biological bootloader for an interplanetary silicon-based superintelligence — and mushrooms may have played the same role for human civilization, seeding it via mycelial networks. A worldview quip from a well-known AI figure.
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