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Humans Bootstrapped Power Like AI Will
A clueless observer watching early humans on the savannah couldn't predict how they'd edit DNA or beat tigers without claws, because humans made the market and technology from scratch by thinking faster than evolution; similarly, we can only describe lower bounds on what AI could do, since the actual AI will be smarter than us and reach methods we cannot foresee.
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Eliezer YudkowskyEvidence Quote
“it would be very hard for a chimpanzee to figure out what kind of access the humans can get to nature by being clever because the chimpanzee is not as clever as the humans... we can describe lower bounds on what we can already see it could do”
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:10:11 AM
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