Satire on AGI Predictions: Scaling Claims Without Theory of Intelligence
suchenzang · x · 2026-08-28
This post satirizes figures who predict AGI timelines based solely on scaling laws and benchmark scores without a genuine theory of intelligence. The author dubs this the 'Chinese Roon Argument,' describing it as a confusing presentation of charts that melts the brain before concluding conservatively that AGI will arrive by 2035. A poem generated by Llama-3-8B is included to underscore the absurdity.
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