Researcher: if people could see their own death dates, everyone would push for AGI ASAP
xiaosun86 · x · 2026-09-11
In a reflective post, AI researcher xiaosun86 muses that if everyone could see how many years they and their loved ones have left—and what disease or accident would kill them—everyone would whip frontier labs to bring AGI into the physical world as soon as possible. He argues humans live in the illusion of immortality, calling it the biggest lie in the world.
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