ML veteran Andriy Burkov calls 'money won't matter post-superintelligence' nonsense
burkov · x · 2026-10-30
Andriy Burkov, author of The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book, publicly pushed back on the popular claim that in a superintelligent future of abundance 'money won't matter.' He called the idea 'bullshit' and said he's ashamed to see otherwise intelligent people pushing it. The short post captures a common technical-community rebuttal to post-scarcity AGI narratives.
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