What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him?: How We All Already Have Our Superintelligent AI-Assistant :: POSSIBLE LECTURE OUTLINE

Anthology Intelligence: humanity’s collective brain is already our superintelligent friend: We don’t need to build superintelligence because we did it already. We have it. It is us. Behind the paywall because I am behind, and so it is not yet a thing, but only an outline…

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What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,
And hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands…

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How bipedalism, bureaucracy, and the binding of time forged the only superintelligent hypersocial superorganism on Earth.

Or, alternatively: the improbable ascent of the East African Plains Ape to planetary dominion—by way of gossip, gift-exchange, and Google.

Or is it, perhaps: Is your smartphone really just the latest chapter in a multi million-year story of collective superintelligent cognition?

I was provoked this AM to turn back to this project by Doug Jones’s showing us a very interesting chart:

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And writes:

Doug Jones: Calories and curves <https://logarithmichistory.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/calories-and-curves-9/>: ‘Comparing energy expenditure (TEE or Total Energy Expended) and fat among humans and our closest relations: chimpanzees…gorillas… and orangutans (Pongo)… adjusted for differences in overall body mass…. Humans are a high-energy species. Also we carry a lot more body fat… particularly… women… extra fat to meet the high energy demands of human infants, gestating and (even more) nursing. But it even applies to men…. A high-energy life-style means… an extra reserve of fat in case of emergencies. We don’t know [for] how long ago our ancestors [had done this]…. A high energy life-style also goes with extensive food sharing and changes in human kinship…