'Predicting an AI plateau is an asymmetric reputation bet', sparking debate
gerardsans · x · 2026-10-14
A reply exchange with cryptographer Matthew Green, who argued many people build reputations on 'AI is no big deal / will plateau': if right, they're the most prescient alive; if wrong, nobody cares. Gerard Sans countered that speculation is a gamble, and controlled-experiment literature has documented transformer limitations since 2023 — hype and science shouldn't be weighed on the same scale.
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