Mike Tintner wrote

> Near the end introduces a v. important
> idea - "the collective brain". In other words, our apparently individual
> intelligence is actually a collective intelligence.

That individuals are embedded into social networks of specialization
and exchange, care etc. is already known both in sociology and economics,
probably in philosophy and social psychology, too.

> and productive efforts of vast numbers of people.

Already known to economists.

> The fantasy of a superAGI machine that can grow individually without a
> vast society supporting it, is another one of the wild fantasies of
> AGI-ers and Singularitarians that violate truly basic laws of nature.

AGIers and Singularitarians say so?

> Individual brains cannot flourish individually in the real world, only
> societies of brains (and bodies) can.

What kind of brains? What kind of societies? And why?




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