Nando De Freitas: enough pessimism in AI — moats and two-year fears are sad frames
giffmana · x · 2026-09-07
- DeepMind researcher Nando De Freitas pushed back against pervasive pessimism in AI, criticizing engineers who say they must monetize quickly because only 2 years remain before automation.
- He also dismissed the obsession with building "moats" as a sad mental frame and called the "we have to catch up" mindset soulless.
- giffmana joked in reply that Fable will address these concerns right after finishing a Lean formalization of the full Navier-Stokes solution.
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