“We’re not going to die; we’re going to pause.”
wfithian · x · 2026-07-22
A short AI-doom joke: "We're not going to die; we're going to pause."
The reply is a riff on an earlier comment saying everyone is going to die. With the attached image of The Goal, it reads like a tongue-in-cheek nod to the idea that the AI wave may not end in apocalypse so much as a forced pause or slowdown.
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