Joke about an alternate AI timeline where CEO Emmett Shear slowed everything down
wordgrammer · x · 2026-10-20
wordgrammer jokes about an alternate universe where AI moves slowly enough for alignment researchers to stay ahead, "because Emmett Shear was CEO." Quoting nicholasbs — "Don't believe the labs. They know how to slow down when they want to" — the thread mocks that Shear never even got his OpenAI laptop during his CEO stint, jabbing at labs' claims that slowing down is impossible.
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