Through AI, genetic editing, or something else, it's highly likely that our society will eventually have human like beings that are incredibly intelligent. What would that be like?
If a cyborg is 1,000,000 times smarter than a human, can you predict what they'd be capable of? Sci fi always tries to side step this but I'm wondering how it'd work if you didn't side step it. They'd know the answer to every question or else know what info they need to learn to figure out the answer. Math would essentially become "complete" with almost all problems either being solved or proven unsolvable. There would still be ways in which math could advance, but they'd be dependent on the society discovering new unsolved questions about the world. Physics and engineering would probably advance in a similar way: a huge explosion solving near everything but then being held back by a lack of real world experiments and data. Society would probably normalize to where way less people worked on "pen and paper advancements" since they'd solve questions faster than new info could come in. A bigger focus would be put on telescopes and lab experiments.
If a cyborg is 1,000,000 times smarter than a human, can you predict what they'd be capable of? Sci fi always tries to side step this but I'm wondering how it'd work if you didn't side step it. They'd know the answer to every question or else know what info they need to learn to figure out the answer. Math would essentially become "complete" with almost all problems either being solved or proven unsolvable. There would still be ways in which math could advance, but they'd be dependent on the society discovering new unsolved questions about the world. Physics and engineering would probably advance in a similar way: a huge explosion solving near everything but then being held back by a lack of real world experiments and data. Society would probably normalize to where way less people worked on "pen and paper advancements" since they'd solve questions faster than new info could come in. A bigger focus would be put on telescopes and lab experiments.