'AGI Is Here and Everyone Uses It for Email': Accelerationists Mock Doomer Predictions
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-06
Guillaume Verdon (beffjezos) quote-mocks AI doomers, citing an engineer who predicted in 2023 — right after GPT-3 — that UBI, mass job loss, or even a Terminator-style takeover would arrive within six months, while "we have AGI now and most people are using it for email." He adds that doomers always jump to Communism as the urgent solution, reigniting the accelerationist vs. doomer spat.
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