Tell HN: Nascent idea: "super intelligence" is not about superior intelligence

Posted by keepamovin on Monday December 01, 2025 @03:07PM
from the self-post dept.

It's actually about the primacy of true intelligence. What if....

What if there is no "super intelligence"???

What if what we have already (our human intellect in its most perfect/refined form) is already the pinnacle?

What if you can't be "smarter" than that? Just faster/more focused/etc.

What if "super intelligence" is not about something smarter than us...but simply, about, finally the primacy of intelligence as some kind of moral sorter/divider?

The restoration/establishment of "raw intelligence" as a moral virtue or north star? The primacy of true intellect?

No more woolly thinking, no more fake hand-wavey ideas. What if "AI super intelligence" is really about fading out all the bs "intelligence" and surfacing/primarying true intellect?

Idk. Just an idea.

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Re:Tell HN: Nascent idea: "super intelligence" is not about ... by PaulHoule on Monday December 01, 2025 @03:12PM (#46112524)

I wouldn't say that human intelligence is "the pinnacle" but I do think that more intelligence might not turn into the ability to solve harder problems.

For instance the problem with high energy physics is not that people don't have ideas but rather we have limited experimental and observational results that would let us tell one theory from another.

Similarly I don't think more intelligence would help in solving the Collatz conjecture.

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Re:Tell HN: Nascent idea: "super intelligence" is not about ... by keepamovin on Monday December 01, 2025 @03:13PM (#46112540)

This is a good distinction between "intelligence" and data. I think we talk the same stuffs! :)

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Re:Tell HN: Nascent idea: "super intelligence" is not about ... by gsf_emergency_6 on Monday December 01, 2025 @07:30PM (#46115679)

Do we here all agree then that there's more than enough "moral data" out there?

Maybe too much?

Both extents are consistent with Sutskever's ideology that Lossy Compression [Reduction?] Is all U Need (probably superseding AIaUN)

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Re:Tell HN: Nascent idea: "super intelligence" is not about ... by bluesky19283746 on Monday December 01, 2025 @03:15PM (#46112572)

Hey, i think there's no such thing as an upper limit and we can always go further or become better. We will never reach the maximum, we can only reach the limit that we won't cross.

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