The Hugging Face Crisis Is Evidence Against Surprise Extinction
JoshPurtell · x · 2026-09-14
Purtell argues the existence of the Hugging Face crisis should strongly update us toward the continuity argument: doomers mostly claimed extinction would come with no warning, and now must defend an awkward "early continuity, late foom" position.
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