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Physical-substrate intelligence relates to an entity’s own compute substrate, which the entity could eventually improve.
Richard Socher · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sep 2026
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“of like physical substrate that i think is yet another space of intelligence because it relates to your own compute substrate which you can eventually also improve um social intelligence isn't fun one in the sense that not in like our necessarily just ethics and morals which are obviously important too but in some sense you can try to define upper bounds of how much can you communicate to how many other intelligent entities”1:17:08Report a misattribution
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