Few technologists have vision fertile enough to pose problems beyond any AI
fkasummer · x · 2026-10-12
- A Straussian read from fkasummer: few technologists have a long-term vision fertile enough to produce meaningful, difficult problems out of reach of any AI; most are trapped in low-value, low-leverage but fast work.
- The quoted post argues humans haven't had enough generations to adapt to a world where everything physical has a digital socket, increasingly run by AI; brain reward systems haven't shifted, creating ontological insecurity as dopamine triggers get gamed by slop.
- Example: before AI, the smartest compiler engineer the author knew took a 6-month break — unthinkable today, when many need crazy hours just to feel productive.
More from AGI Musings
- 'The most important chart for the AI economy': models commoditize, compute wins — FinanceYF5 · 2026-10-12
- AI Has Come For Call Centers: Job Losses Now Spread to Lower-Middle-Income Countries — FinanceYF5 · 2026-10-12
- Re-evaluating Steve Jobs: iPhone's net impact on society — granawkins · 2026-10-12
- From nuclear safety to AI: containing agents with signals they can't produce — WeldPond · 2026-10-12
- Personal Agents Nail First Impressions but Lack Daily Use Cases for Retention — sujingshen · 2026-10-12
- willcb: every non-RL algorithm is a proxy — policy gradients are the minimum-variance unbiased estimator — willcb · 2026-10-12