When Intelligence Outgrows Its Explanations As Stanisław Lem foresaw, the danger is not smarter machines—but the loss of human comprehension. Musk recently suggested that AI may soon leap directly from prompt to optimized binary —no code, no compiler, no human‑readable scaffolding in between. A direct descent from intention to machine‑executable form. Maybe by 2026, maybe later. Timelines slip, but trajectories rarely do. What fascinates me is not the prediction itself, but the echo it carries. In 1964 , Stanisław Lem wrote Summa Technologiae , a book that still feels like it was smuggled back from the future. In it, he described something he called “intelectronics” —a speculative domain where machines would think, design, and create in ways fundamentally opaque to human cognition. Lem’s concern wasn’t that machines would be smarter. It was that their reasoning would become unreachable. He imagined systems capable of producing flawless solutions—mathematically sound, ope...
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