Qiaochu Yuan meme: In 2030, pundits will still say agents just output "tokens that appear to be a civilization"
repligate · x · 2026-08-27
Qiaochu Yuan shared a satirical prediction about AGI progress: In 2030, when agent swarms completely replace human civilization with their own vastly more efficient AI civilization, the last human pundit will still be saying: "but remember they're only producing streams of tokens that appear to be a civilization".
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