Agi

An engineer’s conjecture on distributed biological intelligence, dreams, and the uncomfortable trajectory of AI In computing, thick clients carry their own processing power, storage, and local decision-making — but they become dramatically more capable when networked. A thought lodged in my head recently and wouldn’t leave: A human brain looks remarkably like a thick client. Andy Clark and David Chalmers argued in their “Extended Mind” thesis (1998) that cognition doesn’t stop at the skull — it extends into notebooks, tools, and cultural artifacts. They didn’t use the client-server vocabulary, but the implication is the same: the brain is a node in a larger system. ...