Mechanistic Intelligence Might Prove Useful Even Sooner
1a3orn · x · 2026-07-15
The author suggests that a premise in AI 2040 might be wrong: the book assumes it will take until 2035 for Mechanistic Intelligence (Mech Int) to genuinely help us understand AI, but this timeline may be overestimated.
Their reasoning is that the field barely existed 9 years ago, yet has rapidly taken shape today, making the idea that we must "wait many more years" seem unreasonable.
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