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Some people argue that artificial superintelligence will cause a major discontinuity, drawing an analogy to the large capability change between nonhuman primates and humans despite relatively little genetic change.

Dwarkesh Patel · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025

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“They say that ASI will be this huge discontinuity because,”
“well, we have this huge discontinuity.”
“in the animal to human transition um where like something is like not that much change between pre-human primates and humans genetically but it resulted in this humongous change in capabilities and so they say well why not expect similar things similar between human level intelligence and superhuman intelligence and the point you're making is that”
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