AGI is a verb, not a noun: why treating it as an event misleads us
cephaloform · x · 2026-09-26
The author argues people treat AGI and ASI as nouns—discrete milestones to be "achieved"—when the thing they point to will always turn out to be a process: continuous evolution, dynamics, perhaps a mind.
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