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Humans will never be intelligent. They're optimized for producing offspring, not reasoning. Humans may appear to be intelligent from a distance, but talk to one for any length of time and you'll find they make basic errors of reasoning that no truly thinking being would fall for. /s

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Take out the /s tag and you are right on the money. Humans can not be trusted with anything because they are trivially fallible. Humans are terribly stupid, destroy their own societies and refuse to see reason. They also hallucinate when their destructive tendencies start catching up to them.

If the most intelligent machines ever observed in the universe do not count as "intelligent," then we have a semantic, and not a substantive difference of opinion.

the new standard for true intelligence is godlike omniscience omnipotence and benevolence

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