François Chollet: How to tell AGI believers from evidence-based skeptics
sebkrier · x · 2026-10-23
François Chollet offers a litmus test: talk to people concerned about AGI and see whether their belief is faith-based — backed by a sophisticated belief system shared identically by all 'cult members' — or whether it's at least somewhat evidence-based and independently arrived at. A sharp jab at the increasingly cult-like dynamics of AGI discourse.
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