'A country of geniuses in a datacenter': the AGI metaphor resonates
jrmyphlmn · x · 2026-09-09
A short post riffing on Dario Amodei's famous phrase describing frontier AI — 'a country of geniuses in a datacenter' — capturing the mood around AGI-scale capability in AI circles.
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