A cognitive system with sufficiently high cognitive powers, given any medium-bandwidth channel of causal influence, will not find it difficult to bootstrap to overpowering capabilities independent of human infrastructure.
I don’t find the argument you provide for this point at all compelling; your example mechanism relies entirely on human infrastructure! Stick an AGI with a visual and audio display in the middle of the wilderness with no humans around and I wouldn’t expect it to be able to do anything meaningful with the animals that wander by before it breaks down. Let alone interstellar space.
I don’t find the argument you provide for this point at all compelling; your example mechanism relies entirely on human infrastructure! Stick an AGI with a visual and audio display in the middle of the wilderness with no humans around and I wouldn’t expect it to be able to do anything meaningful with the animals that wander by before it breaks down. Let alone interstellar space.