If we'd built AI in the 1800s, people would've said 'we need ASI to solve diabetes'
zetalyrae · x · 2026-09-11
zetalyrae quips: if we were developing AI in the 1800s, people would be saying 'we need ASI to solve diabetes' — a sharp jab at the habit of deferring every hard societal problem to future superintelligence instead of gradual scientific progress.
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