this hypothetical moment of an intelligence explosion, a point-of-no-return, at which AI will decisively surpass human intelligence, rendering the human species as we know it obsolete, if not actually extinct.[^3] Its foremost advocate, Kur…that we arrive at the point of raising the question how to make the One into something that holds up, that is, that is counted without being. Mathematization alone reaches a real [...] a real that has nothing to do with what traditional kno…
Yuval Noah Harari
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Harari appears only as a passing reference in these excerpts, mentioned in relation to discussions of technological singularity and existential risk from AI surpassing human intelligence. The readings invoke his work to frame contemporary anxieties about whether advanced intelligence systems will render human cognition and agency obsolete, positioning him within debates about posthumanism and the future trajectory of our species in an age of computational acceleration. His presence here anchors broader theoretical concerns about how AI forces us to reconceive what it means to be human when "intelligence" itself becomes a measurable, transferable property divorced from biological substrate.
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