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Until it isn't and we are faced yet again with a much worse pandemic like situation.

Assuming that a superintelligence will contain a program that includes all the programs that can be executed by a universal Turing machine on input potentially as complex as the state of the world

The visible universe is far too small to store that data. Like many exponentials too small. You can't even enumerate all the programs that work on a handful of inputs without running into the problem that the universe just isn't big enough for that.

Until there is a breakthrough. World genius were able to advanced humanity because they were open to possibilities. Lesser scientists were dogmatic that "this can't be because so and so"

Except that actual pandemics are demonstrable, predictable, and based in known science, yes?

The difference between pandemics and this is that pandemics have happened before. This is more like global warming in that respect.

More like it's the politics that really decides what changes, regardless of what science proves

Superintelligence is a mathematical proof

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