Artificial Intelligence as Strange Intelligence

Challenges the linear model of intelligence — the assumption that entities can be ordered on a single scale from less to more intelligent. Intelligence is 'massively multidimensional': many possible goals, many possible environments, no non-arbitrary way to collapse them. Distinguishes 'familiar intelligence' (thinks like us) from 'strange intelligence' (fundamentally different architecture, substrate, origins). AI is the strangest intelligence we've encountered — outwardly familiar (it writes, reasons, discusses) but inwardly alien (it processes information in ways no biological brain does). 'The stranger an intelligence is from our perspective, the easier it is for us to fail to appreciate what it's up to.'