AGI Will Leave No "Pockets" of Today's World, Argues Dan Faggella
danfaggella · x · 2026-09-29
AI researcher Dan Faggella argues that small towns with vernacular architecture are lovely precisely because they suggest some things stay familiar amid change — but that sentiment is now false. The regime change of Earth's intelligence to AGI is unlikely to leave any "pockets" of today's world intact.
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