🧩 Philosophy 5h ago · Yair Halberstadt

Minimal Vs Maximal superintelligence

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I've seen lots of arguments here conflate lots of different types of superintelligence. Here I separate out two broad categories, which I'll term minimal and maximal superintelligences. This is an important distinction as they differ in terms of timelines, risks, and mitigations.Maximal superintelligenceThis is the idealised limit of intelligence. It can solve anything that can be solved by being clever. You can't outsmart it, it's prepared for every contingency, and can react instantaneously wi

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