Superintelligence is near: expert-defined limits are really limits of human cognition
DeryaTR_ · x · 2026-11-16
The author argues that the boundaries of human achievement are set by physics and by intelligence — and while physics is fixed, intelligence is about to be transcended. Experts throughout history have judged what's possible based on existing tools and cognition, but an intelligence that reasons and invents beyond the best human minds will overturn many deep assumptions.
This creates cognitive dissonance for specialists who spent careers mastering fields where constraints may merely reflect human cognitive limits. The piece calls for experts to shift from defining boundaries to expanding them with non-biological intelligence, claiming the age of superintelligence is very near.
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