The Butlerian Jihad: The Real Upgrade Humanity Needs
What if technological progress focused on enhancing human intelligence rather than concentrating it in powerful AI systems? Localised General Intelligence offers a human-centred alternative.
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Beyond AI Hype: Why AGI Is Farther Away Than We Think
The Wonderful Tools, Unskilled Toolsman Problem
When AI Outgrows Human Thought: From Data Harvesting to Naked Information
AI’s early advantage may come from exploiting humanity’s accumulated knowledge. What happens when the frontier shifts to naked information, physical computation and new languages of thought?
The Universal Constraint on AI: Intelligence Cannot Transcend Physical Reality
AI may overcome ignorance, technology, and practical obstacles—but can it transcend the laws of physical reality? Explore the physics and resource bounds on superintelligence.
Never Compete With Your Customers: Fun and Irony of the Navier–Stokes Conundrum
AI companies may be better served by building the world’s best intellectual tools than by claiming ownership of the discoveries their customers make with them.
The Joker Test: What Happens to Ethics When Efficiency Becomes Everything?
When technology removes the dependencies that once held civilization together, what happens to the moral constraints on power?
The Rise of the Permanent Underclass: The Post-AGI Collapse of the Economic Ladder
When AI makes basic necessities abundant but destroys the traditional pathways to wealth, will most people still have a way to climb?
Will AGI Let Elites Rule Forever—and Make Human Bargaining Power Disappear? — Summary
A concise exploration of how automation and AI could change the relationship between economic usefulness, ownership, bargaining power and democracy.
The Cute Tiger Cub Problem : Boom or Doom of AI ?
AI doom can be real without every AI-doom narrative being reliable. The Cute Tiger Cub Problem examines how satire, music, borrowed authority and visual certainty can blur the line between evidence, interpretation and speculation.
The AI Control Problem May Be Solvable
If humans cannot reliably understand a future superintelligence, perhaps control does not require understanding the mind. It may require controlling the systems, resources and physical interfaces through which intelligence can act.
Soft Brain Initiative: Capturing Human Wisdom, Scaling Expertise, Rewarding Generations
Soft Brain Initiative Preserving Humanity’s Greatest Asset Before It Is Lost Forever “Libraries preserve information. Civilizations progress when they preserve wisdom.” What if history has been repeating the…