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Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Humanity’s edge has always been general intelligence—but if we build machine minds that surpass us, the future may hinge on a single design choice. This is a guided tour through how superintelligence could arrive, why the default outcome may be disastrous, and what “control” might realistically mean.
Progress isn’t a fragile historical accident or a finite resource—it’s the natural result of a single human activity: creating good explanations. From physics to politics to beauty, Deutsch argues that once error-correcting knowledge exists, there is no inherent limit to how far improvement can go.
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Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Humanity’s edge has always been general intelligence—but if we build machine minds that surpass us, the future may hinge on a single design choice. This is a guided tour through how superintelligence could arrive, why the default outcome may be disastrous, and what “control” might realistically mean.
Progress isn’t a fragile historical accident or a finite resource—it’s the natural result of a single human activity: creating good explanations. From physics to politics to beauty, Deutsch argues that once error-correcting knowledge exists, there is no inherent limit to how far improvement can go.
On a bare, cliff-walled speck of lava called Daphne Major, two scientists measure finch beaks year after year—until drought, flood, and chance collisions between species reveal that evolution isn’t just a fossil story; it’s happening fast enough to watch.
At Argonne National Laboratory, a small team proved a bold idea: a sodium-cooled fast reactor with metal fuel and on-site recycling could be safer, cleaner, and vastly more fuel-efficient—until politics shut it down just as the finish line came into view.
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