AGI is a verb, not a noun: why the 'when it's achieved' framing misleads us
cephaloform · x · 2026-09-26
The author argues that people treat AGI and ASI as discrete events — something that will one day be "achieved" — largely because the terms are nouns. In reality, they claim, what these words point to is always a process: continuous evolution, dynamics, perhaps a "mind" as an unfolding function. A philosophical pushback against the AI community's obsession with milestone-style timelines, suggesting the focus should be on the slope of capability change rather than a single arrival moment.
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