Common AI forecasts ignore algorithmic breakthroughs, argues one skeptical poster
shauseth · x · 2026-09-15
A brief but pointed take: the author argues that most future AI projections—typically extrapolations of compute scaling and current capability curves—fail to factor in algorithmic breakthroughs, which means such forecasts may be systematically off.
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