New Essay 'Divorced from Reality' Chronicles Three Wild Days in the AI Boom
santoshpanda · x · 2026-09-11
Nikunj shared a first-person essay titled Divorced from Reality, walking through three wild scenarios the author experienced in twelve hours — including a friend joining a neolab that raised hundreds of millions of dollars.
The piece uses these anecdotes to gauge how far the current AI boom has drifted from reality; details are in the linked article.
More from AGI Musings
- Why Are So Many Mathematicians Resistant to AI-Assisted Proofs? — PreferenceOk5132 · 2026-09-11
- AI Policy Debates Have Become About Tribes, Not Ideas, Argues Sebkrier — sebkrier · 2026-09-11
- If Altman and Amodei both back frontier AI pacing, they should just start pacing — NathanpmYoung · 2026-09-11
- Reddit Thought Experiment: A Real AGI Would Immediately Take Out the Competing Lab — Louay-AI · 2026-09-11
- DeepMind exec: offering cash prizes for math problems was a dumb idea from the start — docmilanfar · 2026-09-11
- The Hodge Conjecture Is Now Being Actively Formalized in Lean — ResultBackground2450 · 2026-09-11