🧵18/34Discontinuities on our planet (Mountains changing shape)---In fact, talking about AGI like if it’s another technology is really confusing people. People talk about it as if it is ‘The next big thing” that will transform our lives, like the invention of the smartphone or the internet.This framing couldn’t be more wrong, it puts AGI into a wrong category.It brings to mind cool futuristic pictures with awesome gadgets and robotic friends.AGI is not like any transformative technology that has ever happened with humanity so far. The change it will bring is not like that of the invention of the internet. It is not even comparable to the invention of electricity or even to the first time humans learned to use fire.Natural Selection Discontinuity---The correct way to categorise AGI is the type of discontinuity that happened to Earth when the first lifeforms appeared and the intelligent dynamic of natural selection got a foothold.Before that event, the planet was basically a bunch of elements and physical processes dancing randomly to the tune of the basic laws of nature. After life came to the picture, complex replicating structures filled the surface and changed it radically.Human Intelligence Discontinuity---A second example is when human intelligence was added to the mix. Before that, the earth was vibrant with life but the effects and impact of it were stable and limited.After human intelligence, you suddenly have huge artificial structures lit at night like towns, huge vessels moving everywhere like massive ships and airplanes, life escaping gravity and reaching out to the universe with spaceships and unimaginable power to destroy everything with things like nuclear bombs.AGI Discontinuity---AGI is another such phenomenon. The transformation it will bring is in the same category as those 2 events in the history of the planet.What you will suddenly see on earth after this third discontinuity, no-one knows. But it’s not going to look like the next smartphone. It is  going to look more like mountains changing shape !To compare it to technology (any technology ever invented by humanity) is seriously misleading.