The SF AGI Scene: Youth Burdened with Saving the World
nabla_theta · x · 2026-08-08
A tweet quoting the plot of Neon Genesis Evangelion draws a striking parallel to the reality of the current San Francisco AGI/ASI social scene.
The post points out a weird quirk of the SF AI scene: everyone is so young. This youthfulness tinges the whole universe of thinking with irreverence, ironic detachment, insecurity, and a superposition of absolute belief and disbelief in the importance of Artificial General Intelligence. People are dead serious yet possessed by immense uncertainty, much like the children in the anime who are burdened with saving the world but struggle due to their emotions and broken adults around them.
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