passages-fire-language-printing-among-possible-arrangements

# More than fire. More than language. More than the... > {{More than fire. More than language. More than the printing press. More than electricity. More than the railway. More than the automobile. More than flight. More than space travel. Each of those altered what humans could do, but artificial intelligence reaches toward altering the effective quantity, speed, distribution and eventually the architecture of **intelligence itself**, the generative capacity behind nearly everything humans have ever done, and will ever do.}} That is why f{F{ear of machine intelligence is rational even when panic is not, and governance is necessary even when absolute control is fantasy.}} That is why the moment{The arrival of machine intelligence{ feels apocalyptic even if the apocalypse turns out not to be annihilation but transformation, because apocalypse in its older meaning is an **unveiling**: a disclosure that the order we mistook for permanence was merely one temporary arrangement among many possible arrangements.}} **Source:** [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match. There Is No Safety. There Is No Retreat.]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “More than fire. More than language. More than the printing press. More than electricity. More than the railway. More than the automobile. More than flight. More than space travel. Each of those altered what humans could do, but artificial intelligence reaches toward altering the effective quantity, speed, distribution and eventually the architecture of intelligence itself, the generative capacity behind nearly everything humans have ever done, and will ever do. That is why fear of machine intelligence is rational even when panic is not, and governance is necessary even when absolute control is fantasy. That is why the moment feels apocalyptic even if the apocalypse turns out not to be annihilation but transformation, because apocalypse in its older meaning is an unveiling: a disclosure that the order we mistook for permanence was merely one temporary arrangement among many possible arrangements.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-fire-language-printing-among-possible-arrangements ```