"AGI-pilled" skeptic cites 20 years of self-driving struggles in viral spat
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-31
An X user quote-posted and mocked an "AGI-pilled subhuman" take: the original poster argued there is a fundamental gap between symbol manipulation that works every time and physical systems riddled with edge cases, spurious sensor data, actuator decay and inconsistent latency—pointing out self-driving still isn't solved after 20 years, and LLMs haven't replaced office jobs at economically significant scale. The replier ridiculed the "stonk brain" mindset as incurable. A typical flare-up of the logic-vs-embodiment debate in AI circles.
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