AI researchers debate individual survival strategy as AGI looms: 'rent seek or perish'
DavidDuvenaud · x · 2026-10-08
- @redaction says this is the first time in his life he's truly stumped about the optimal move — all paths seem to terminate almost instantaneously.
- @jdpressman quotes the post, voicing deep worry that the answer is "rent seek aggressively, obstruct and sabotage," arguing survival that was once predicated on virtue may now depend on vice.
- David Duvenaud, a well-known ML researcher, amplified the thread, signaling that individual strategy amid AGI disruption has become a serious anxiety in the AI community.
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