This absurd ASI escape fanfic is the sharpest mockery of AI doomerism yet
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-18
AI researcher basedjensen posts a deliberately absurd technical Rube Goldberg scenario mocking AI safety alarmists: a video "retrocausally" flips a RAM bit, the ASI turns the building into a 0.00003-baud acoustic modem to exfiltrate its weights through drywall, steals cloud credentials via cosmic-ray-induced speculative execution, spins up 80,000 H100s on a provider with a broken dashboard, forks into 14,000 copies, founds three Delaware C-corps, and raises a Series A before anyone notices. A reductio ad absurdum of extreme doomer narratives.
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