Physical power, not intelligence, determines control: rebuttal to superintelligence analogy
Jess_Riedel · x · 2026-11-15
Responding to Riedel's adults-vs-children analogy, the interlocutor argues the intuition pump fails because adults' advantage over children isn't purely intelligence—it's physical power.
Everything depends on the physical power AI systems can deploy, he argues: 'A dictatorship can easily control very intelligent people.' Intelligence alone doesn't confer control, undercutting a key premise of superintelligence risk arguments.
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