willcb: AI's endpoint looks like faster, cheaper human-reasoning-on-chip
willcb · x · 2026-10-16
willcb argues the field's ego wants AI to be deeply inhuman because that would make the challenges ahead harder and more virtuous—but there's little evidence the limit point differs much from better, faster, cheaper human-reasoning-on-chip. He adds a fun implication of swarm scaling laws: companies are literally superintelligences.
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