Technology & the Future
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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.
From a blistering Nevada missile test where a “stealth” jet refuses to appear on radar, to secret CIA airfields and Mach 3 spy planes, Ben Rich recounts how a small band of engineers repeatedly bent physics—and bureaucracy—to change modern warfare.
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.
In the early 1970s, Xerox quietly built a research lab in Palo Alto that invented the personal computer, Ethernet, the laser printer, and the modern graphical interface—then watched outsiders turn those ideas into fortunes while the parent company struggled to understand what it had paid for.
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