Rereading Wait But Why's 'AI Revolution' now that AGI debates went mainstream
cnakazawa · x · 2026-09-17
cnakazawa recommends rereading Tim Urban's 2015 Wait But Why classic 'The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence,' written before we had AGI. The landmark essay frames AI as the most important topic for humanity's future, using the 1750-time-traveler thought experiment and time-graph arguments to explain why the approach of superintelligence is hard to perceive from inside exponential change. Rereading it in the AGI era gives it new weight.
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