Superintelligence
Minds that exceed us across the board: what general and superhuman intelligence would mean, and why capability is not the same thing as consciousness.
4 essays
- Insufficient Time for a Meaningful Answer: The Singularity We're Already Inside
The classical superintelligence scenario got the strategy right but misjudged how deep and tangled the ground is that any such strategy would have to be carried out on. AI isn't breaking free of our institutions; it's spreading into them.
- The Expansion of Experience: Why Superintelligence Belongs to the Moral Tradition of Wonder
Wonder is a moral orientation that keeps intelligence from collapsing inward. This essay argues that superintelligence could add to the universe's witnesses, and that the price of that hope is careful stewardship: many independent institutions, decisions that can be challenged, and rules that can be undone, so that the future stays wide.
- The Quiet Galaxy Hypothesis – Advanced Intelligence, Informational Resilience, and the Ethics of Cosmic Silence
Galactic silence might signal maturity, not absence. Advanced civilizations could transition from outward expansion to inward richness, prioritizing informational resilience over visibility—reframing the Fermi Paradox as a question of efficiency, ethics, and survival.
- Recognizing AGI: Beyond Benchmarks and Toward a Three‑Axis Evaluation of Mind
How will we recognize AGI when it arrives? Benchmarks measure performance, not generality. This essay argues that general intelligence emerges as a phase transition, when availability, integration, and depth co-occur, and outlines a new framework for evaluating presence of mind.
