A four-step joke says AI theories only matter once VCs fund them
pmddomingos · x · 2026-07-29
A tongue-in-cheek four-stage rubric for judging AI theories:
- Armchair: “I like it.”
- GOFAI: “It runs.”
- SOTA: “It beats the benchmarks.”
- VC: “It raises billions.”
The joke lands because it compresses the gap between research merit and market success into one ladder of increasingly cynical validation.
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