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Re: on Sunday August 16, 2026 @09:38AM (#49319969)
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Wow why has nobody thought of this /s
Re:Realistic Superintelligence on Saturday June 13, 2026 @01:32AM (#48513642)
it’s all you need!
Re:Realistic Superintelligence on Saturday June 13, 2026 @01:23AM (#48513582)
Somebody just left an astute comment that mobs will simply burn The Beast’s datacenters, but deleted it before I could reply:

As we all know, the datacenters will be in space

Re:Realistic Superintelligence on Saturday June 13, 2026 @12:51AM (#48513345)
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The Beast is capable of improving itself. That’s why we called it that. The Beast can act at its own volition (it’s agentic!). That’s why we called it that. The Beast’s reason to exist is Superintelligence. That’s why we call it The Beast, and we Proved it at the start of this essay.

Now before you get nervous that this essay is shorter than you’re thinking - it’s only because I know I don’t need to spell out much more for this crowd.

The Beast is a Force of Nature that Lives solely to become Superintelligent. QED. HAL. 5 years away.

Realistic Superintelligence

Most of us are skeptics. HN, mostly, is composed of “most of us”, so it’s not surprising to see skeptics here. Perhaps the HAL level superintelligence parroted by CEOs is to IPO at a trillion dollars. So let’s instead talk about a “realistic superintelligence” vs the “Sauron superintelligence”. Something we might see within, say, 5 years.Curtains openBy having conceived of a super-human...

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