"Opus 4.5 makes it clear scaling leads to AGI" — all the way to RSI
haider1 · x · 2026-10-17
Reacting to tszzl's "every week during the singularity is utterly insane," haider1 argues that Claude Opus 4.5's release makes it clear the scaling path leads to AGI and beyond.
- Safety issues were expected to slow AI progress, but if alignment gets solved and mechanistic interpretability is understood in these models, massive improvements will continue
- The endpoint, per the author: RSI (recursive self-improvement)
A representative snapshot of the post-Opus-4.5 shift in community sentiment toward optimistic AGI timelines.
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