The link provided in the grandparent is important:
And DON’T EVEN GET ME STARTED on people who think Wikipedia is an “Artificial Intelligence”, the invention of LSD was a “Singularity” or that corporations are “superintelligent”!
“Education” is “brain modification technology” in about the same way the invention of LSD was a singularity.
It was a long time ago so my memory is hazy… was that post actually written as a direct response to you back in the day or was the “corporations are super-intelligent” guy someone else?
The link provided in the grandparent is important:
“Education” is “brain modification technology” in about the same way the invention of LSD was a singularity.
It was a long time ago so my memory is hazy… was that post actually written as a direct response to you back in the day or was the “corporations are super-intelligent” guy someone else?
I don’t think I would ever have said “corporations are super-intelligent”. “Agents with super-human powers” would be more my line.
“Superintelligent” means something fairly specific—something which corporations are not yet—and I have been aware of that for quite a long time.