'Corporations are superintelligence' takes get mercilessly mocked
tszzl · x · 2026-10-08
A throwback jab at the old claim that "we already have superintelligence, they're called corporations." The author sarcastically recalls "that fateful day in October when Dick's Sporting Goods dropped dozens of Fields Medal-worthy math discoveries on the world all at once" — mocking the analogy in light of AI models actually producing research-level output.
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