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Brigitte Nerlich
@bnerlich.bsky.social

Chatting about 'super intelligence/superintelligence'? Want to know more about the scientific context? Explore here makingsciencepublic.com/2026/10/11/w...

makingsciencepublic.comWhat’s in a name? Man-made climate, biology and intelligenceOn 22 September 2026, at the UN General Assembly, President Trump announced that the United States “totally rejects” any attempt to construct a global scheme to control artificial intelligence, and…

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Philip Ball
@philipcball.bsky.social

I love it how Bostrom's definition is wheeled out to imply (you don't do that here) that it already has a meaning: “any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest”. And all this really does is expose the shallowness of that definition...

Adam Rutherford
@adamrutherford.bsky.social

One day, we will look back on the musings of these egomaniacal showboating cranks who somehow convinced first academia and subsequently the world that they had some sort of philosophical wisdom beyond the reach of mortals.

Casmilus
@casmilus.bsky.social

If we're dragging on Bostrom, please don't dismiss everyone wondering about these topics. This is a serious book with some interesting ideas in it, and critical of various sources www.routledge.com/Posthuman-Li...

routledge.comPosthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the HumanWe imagine posthumans as humans made superhumanly intelligent or resilient by future advances in nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science. Many argue that these enha...
Philip Ball
@philipcball.bsky.social

Nice. But *does* Bostrom's definition mean that? It can mean anything you want it to mean, given that "virtually" and "of interest". And that was presumably his intention.