will.de(): on ASI 'it's literally everybody' — real-economy AI diffuses at human speed
willcb · x · 2026-09-22
Responding to 'which lab will build ASI?', developer will.de() argues the answer is 'literally everybody' — just as nobody asks who builds inference, chat-with-PDF, or coding agents, no serious player will sit out the biggest one. He adds that while AI can 'run away with it' in closed-loop domains like math, anything touching the real economy diffuses at the speed of people, giving competitors effectively an eternity to catch up — a counterintuitive take on the singularity narrative.
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