cloneofsimo hits back at 'AGI-pilled disdain experts' claim: rational optimists aren't like this
cloneofsimo · x · 2026-09-26
cloneofsimo quoted doomslide's claim that AGI enthusiasts are 'too lazy to reach the frontier and need experts' affirmation to confirm their delusions,' and pushed back hard.
He argues this is unjustified hostility toward people enthusiastic about AI's impact on science: rational optimists like himself neither disdain experts nor claim humans add nothing to economically valuable processes. He cites his best friend, a professional mathematician at MIT who has mentored him since undergrad.
He maintains human researchers will retain value-add, and that painting AI enthusiasts as anti-intellectual misrepresents most of the community.
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