The AI race in one sentence: 'the other guy is gunning for ASI, so let's build ASI shit'
menhguin · x · 2026-09-25
A wry one-liner capturing the psychology of the AI race: every country and frontier lab believes its rivals are sprinting toward ASI, so each feels compelled to build "some ASI shit" too. The quoted meme jokes that this has been the collective mindset of the AGI race for the past decade.
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