X debate: US elite discourse has obsessed over AGI for three years
jd_pressman · x · 2026-09-10
A debate over the classic essay "No Fire Alarm": jdpressman argues that while the essay is 90% correct, its claim that no elite consensus on imminent AGI ever formed is clearly false — X, the forum of US elite discourse, has been obsessed with AGI for three years. The thread revisits the "AI will silently emerge from a basement team, no fire alarm" trope and counterarguments that it stopped being accurate by 2017.
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