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Comment by stratos123

12 hours ago

> Super intelligence (the ability to have many smarter minds than your own reporting to you) has always been available to the wealthy and powerful

This is not what superintelligence is. Don't be like Meta and redefine existing terms for marketing purposes.

Actually, it has been historically been observed that some institutions, such as large corporations, do resemble super-powered, non-human intelligences of a kind, and that studying our history with them is instructive for our hopes of controlling superintelligent AI (i.e. not good).

This is important to realise and defend. Super intelligence is not a collection of human-level intellect smarter than you. Super intelligence is an intellect surpassing any human. That's a important distinction for AI alignment discussion now and in the future. The books 'Superintelligence' (978-0199678112) and 'The Coming Wave' (978-1529923834) are worth reading.

In many way it is, because it allows defeting many incorret arguments people in power make, or simply asking where is the cheapest product ”X” with one question. Or simply be more aware or any kind of scam people or companies try to do for you. It is pushing equal intellectuality quite hard with low effort.

  • No. You don't "defet" (sic) "incorret" (sic) arguments by making up new definitions for existing words. Stop doing that.