Neil Chilson: a monolithic "Claude 10" in 100M robot bodies is as implausible as hard takeoff
neil_chilson · x · 2026-10-07
Neil Chilson counters Scott Alexander: the urgency in doomer messaging relies on hard-takeoff narratives, not "100 million robots in 10 years." He also finds Scott's 2035 picture — Claude 10 as a single entity in 100 million bodies — deeply implausible, nearly as centralized as the hard takeoff Scott rejects, and akin to asking everyone to Wile E. Coyote off a cliff together. If that scenario arrived, we'd indeed be in trouble, he grants.
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