The Cognitive Lag in Predicting AI's Future
EigenGender · x · 2026-07-11
The author argues that the biggest flaw in "AI 2040" style predictions is the assumption that governments and the public will realize its arrival in time.
They use an exaggerated example to illustrate this point: even if the future is already unfolding at a massive scale—like "sending nanobots to build a Dyson sphere"—people might still intuitively disbelieve that it's actually happening.
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