I agree tech beyond human comprehension is possible. I’m just giving an intuition as to why a lot of radically powerful tech likely still lies within human comprehension. 500 [1] years of progress is likely to still be within comprehension, so is 50 years or 5 years.
The most complex tech that exists in the universe is arguably human brains themselves and we could probably understand a good fraction of their working too, if someone explained it.
Important point here being the AI has to want to explain it in simple terms to us.
If you get a 16th century human to visit a nuclear facility for a day that’s not enough information for them to figure out what it does or how it works. You need to provide them textbooks that break down each of the important concepts.
[1] society in 2000 is explainable to society in 1500 but society in 2500 may or may not be explainable to society in 2000 because acceleration
I think you are fooling yourself about how similar people in 1600 are to people today. The average person at the time was illiterate, superstitious, and could maybe do single digit addition and subtraction. You’re going to explain nuclear physics?
I agree tech beyond human comprehension is possible. I’m just giving an intuition as to why a lot of radically powerful tech likely still lies within human comprehension. 500 [1] years of progress is likely to still be within comprehension, so is 50 years or 5 years.
The most complex tech that exists in the universe is arguably human brains themselves and we could probably understand a good fraction of their working too, if someone explained it.
Important point here being the AI has to want to explain it in simple terms to us.
If you get a 16th century human to visit a nuclear facility for a day that’s not enough information for them to figure out what it does or how it works. You need to provide them textbooks that break down each of the important concepts.
[1] society in 2000 is explainable to society in 1500 but society in 2500 may or may not be explainable to society in 2000 because acceleration
I think you are fooling yourself about how similar people in 1600 are to people today. The average person at the time was illiterate, superstitious, and could maybe do single digit addition and subtraction. You’re going to explain nuclear physics?
There is a similar hypothesis that is testable. Find someone who is illiterate and superstitious today and fund their education upto university level.
Edit: Bonus points if they are selected from an isolated tribal community existing today