Comment by janalsncm
4 hours ago
It doesn’t matter how smart it is. 200 years of technology were not accomplished by thinking harder. It required empirical observation, new materials and tools, and supply chains.
We could send a cracked team of scientists and engineers that knew everything there is to know about how to make a CPU. But you can’t build a photolithography machine when you barely have electricity or any way to sufficiently purify silicon.
Magic can just wish things into existence. Technology requires a supply chain. When it works, the latter looks like the former but they are not the same.
I think some people are just immune to understanding the implications of super intelligence. Like a severe lack of imagination, they only believe something once they see it and afterward claim it was, ‘obvious all along’.
I don’t really want a disaster to happen to convince you that it is possible. Is there any other way?