jd_pressman hints one of his three contrarian AI predictions just came true
jd_pressman · x · 2026-10-08
Researcher jdpressman quoted his standing positions—AI agents will work, Drexler-like assemblers will work, and the "luddites fallacy" is not a fallacy in the limit—then added only "One down, two to go.", implying one has just been vindicated without saying which.
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