Yeah. I suspect this links to a pattern I’ve noticed- in stories, especially rationalist stories, people who are successful at manipulation or highly resistant to manipulation are also highly generally intelligent. In real life, people who I know who are extremely successful at manipulation and scheming seem otherwise dumb as rocks. My suspicion is that we have a 20 watt, 2 exaflop skullduggery engine that can be hacked to run logic the same way we can hack a pregnancy test to run doom
Yeah. I suspect this links to a pattern I’ve noticed- in stories, especially rationalist stories, people who are successful at manipulation or highly resistant to manipulation are also highly generally intelligent. In real life, people who I know who are extremely successful at manipulation and scheming seem otherwise dumb as rocks. My suspicion is that we have a 20 watt, 2 exaflop skullduggery engine that can be hacked to run logic the same way we can hack a pregnancy test to run doom