'Generally exceptional but not superhuman AI' sparks debate: a long golden age, not a singularity
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-22
shinboson argues people underthink the implications of generally exceptional but not generally superhuman AI: incredible economic impact, but likely a long golden age rather than a singularity. Charts from TrackingAI show offline IQ scores climbing to 136-151, and the number of people you'd need to find one smarter than AI rising from 61 today.
The thread erupts: autumn proposes a third scenario — "AI makes everything worse forever but not enough to kill us quickly" — citing vibe-coded software rot and unfixable vulnerability discovery. Critics call this guild privilege, mocking decades of failed traditional ML academia; autumn counters that his concerns are material, not purist.
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