Reddit debates: even if AGI arrives, how much can world infrastructure change by 2035?
ThatIsNotIllegal · reddit · 2026-08-25
The OP believes we're in the heart of the singularity with everything accelerating eerily fast, yet struggles to imagine global infrastructure transforming within a decade — citing potholes in their city that have persisted unchanged for nearly 20 years. The post captures a common skepticism about the gap between an intelligence explosion and the inertia of the physical world.
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