South Park underpants-gnome meme skewers the missing step of AGI utopia
Puzzleheaded-King584 · reddit · 2026-10-18
Quoting Cassie Pritchard's tweet questioning AGI utopia — if a few humans own the "aligned" robots and no human labor is needed, why would they share the output? — a reply deploys the South Park underpants-gnomes meme: Phase 1, one company acquires unprecedented wealth and power; Phase 2, ?; Phase 3, they give it up so everyone benefits.
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