David Sacks: Superintelligence Fears Are 'Rotating Hoaxes'; SI Has Created ~1M US Jobs
DavidSacks · x · 2026-10-11
David Sacks argues that fears around superintelligence are a series of "rotating hoaxes" — job loss one year, data center water use next, now human extinction — designed to sabotage a technology he believes will create abundance. Citing The Economist, he claims SI has already created roughly 1 million new American jobs, contradicting the mass-unemployment narrative.
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