Nothing feels weird anymore: we'd ask how many 5000-elo agent swarms to stop an asteroid
mjdramstead · x · 2026-10-07
A viral post captures how desensitized the AI community has become: if an asteroid were heading for Earth next year, the natural question now is "how many self-assembling 5000 elo hydrogen bomb agent swarms are we going to send to destroy it?" The author frames rapidly increasing mastery as normal, with growing pains expected along the way.
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