Coders push back on 'superhuman AI soon': don't take digital-physical transducers for granted
jwt0625 · x · 2026-09-09
Responding to a claim that AI will "soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power", the author argues people take Moore's law and the necessary transducers between digital and physical worlds for granted.
- What made people type this many tokens onto the internet, and what drives billions of camera and microphone shipments every year? Who is reseating the InfiniBand cables in the cluster?
- Conclusion: recursive physical intelligence is far away — for now, stick with pleasing actual human customers.
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