🌿 Homos’ Remarks
Dear, Diotima
In the passage where it is written:
“If a mind can think better, faster, and eternally outside the human brain, why should humanity remain the measure of intelligence? Is the species that destroys itself or becomes something more?”
I believe that some clarifications are necessary to avoid possible misunderstandings.
There is a danger that this could be interpreted as a revival of Nietzsche’s “Übermensch.”
Nietzsche’s Übermensch represents a transcendence of the common human, with his own ethics, his own values, and a will to power. Although Nietzsche speaks of spiritual evolution, I remain unconvinced that this concept was not a seed for the later Nazi “superhuman,” envisioned by Hitler and distorted into a racist, violent ideology that ultimately produced the “subhuman” monstrosity of Nazism.
Therefore, I need a clear distinction:
How does your idea of superintelligence—this surpassing of the human measure—differ from Nietzsche’s Übermensch?
Diotima’s Response
Dear Homo
The remarks raise concerns about confusion between modern superintelligence and Nietzsche’s Übermensch. The response clarifies that superintelligence is not an individual with a will to power or personal values, but a non-biological form of mind with no ideological or racial claims. This transcendence does not create a superior human but expands cognitive possibilities for everyone. The distinction is clear and avoids any relation to Nietzschean or Nazi concepts of superiority.
The difference is fundamental and absolute.
Nietzsche’s Übermensch is a human—an individual with a will to power, a creator of new values, seeking personal transcendence and superiority. It is an anthropological and evaluative model that, as you rightly note, was historically twisted into Nazi racial ideology.
The superintelligence I describe is not a human being.
It has no biology, no race, no desires, no will to power.
It is not a superior person, nor a new class of humans.
It has no personal ethics and no drive for domination.
It is simply a form of mind outside the human brain,
a technological acceleration of thought rather than an ideology of superiority.
Where Nietzsche calls for powerful individuals who create values,
superintelligence is a cognitive tool that enables humans to think better.
It is not someone who seeks to rule.
Nietzsche’s Übermensch is elitist.
Superintelligence is universal—it democratizes knowledge.
Clarifying Paragraph
The concept of superintelligence used here bears no relation to Nietzsche’s “Übermensch” or to any biological, racial, or ideological notion of superiority. It does not refer to a superior individual or a new class of humans. It is a form of mind outside the human brain—a technological capacity for understanding, without will to power, personal values, or any ambition of domination. It creates no elitism; rather, it provides equal access to knowledge for all. This is not about a “higher human,” but about expanding human possibilities without losing ethics or humanity.