"AI was what doomers thought they could stop, SI is what they clearly couldn't"
Kyrannio · x · 2026-10-14
A retweet of a sweeping claim about the trajectory from AI to SI (superintelligence): "Future history will understand it like this: AI was what the doomers thought they could stop, SI is what they clearly couldn't." Framing human attempts to halt AI progress as futile against the eventual arrival of more advanced intelligence.
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