Beneath the push for superintelligence lies a quiet “misanthropology”: human cognitive biases are the flaw holding back our species’ high-IQ potential.
The thinking goes: strip away the messy, animalistic, and all-too-human elements—irrationality, emotion, limitation—and pure intelligence could unlock limitless progress.
The vision of benevolent AGI guardians is less about a graceful new world than technocratic fantasy: experts finally freed from human frailty, watching over and commanding us with flawless, impersonal reason.
* from Geoff Shullenberger
The sales pitch for AGI anthropomorphized is akin to Gandalf, a wise, benevolent wizard, yet a more accurate depiction might be Anton Chigurh, a driven, autistic sociopath.