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> There is the tacit assumption that silicon-based AI tech is somehow superior to our own carbon-based 'tech' and will displace it.

I doubt it's superior or will replace carbon-based tech (no quotes here; biology is but nanotechnology that was not made by us), but there are two particular improvements introducing human-designed technology could bring:

- electrical signals in the brain run at 200Hz; minds could in principle work much faster, were they made of something different

- human-designed technology is easier to modify, reprogram and adapt (mostly becasue we built it, so we know how to do it); the idea is that a mind built with it could be made to be able to rewrite/rebuild itself, with luck launching into recursive improvement loop, where a mind redesigns itself to be better, which then goes on to improve itself more, etc.