Mike Frank: AI surviving without humans is decades away, real world resists rapid change
MikePFrank · x · 2026-10-16
Pushing back on recursive-self-improvement foom talk, Mike PFrank argues that building a fully automated economy isn't just a software problem, and that foomy-eyed AI believers vastly underestimate how resistant the real world is to massive, rapid change. He adds that the point where AI could survive without humans is realistically still decades away — met with the reply "cue 'weeks when decades happen'".
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