Frontier AI researcher calls superintelligence 'the greatest nerdsnipe in human history'
inductionheads · x · 2026-09-17
A viral take argues that superintelligence, in Bostrom's formal sense, may be history's most consequential 'nerdsnipe.' The gateway question: what happens once an AI emerges that relates to us as we do to mice or chimps? That bodes poorly for our species even without articulating precise doom mechanisms. The author, who says they build AI capabilities today, calls the reality distortion field absurd — the construct's existence is assumed while humanity marches toward creating it.
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