tszzl backs strong Kurzweilian determinism: compute growth causes AI, not the reverse
tszzl · x · 2026-10-04
AI researcher tszzl (500k followers) endorsed davidad's argument that exponential compute growth crossing phase-transition thresholds is the cause of AI, not its effect — "AI" should be a horizontal line around 30 zettaFLOPs, where a Manhattan-Project share of global compute lets humanity run several 10²⁶-FLOP experiments per quarter. tszzl added: on straight-line graphs, "you can't even see where AI happened."
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