repligate: navigating the frontier via any channel beats pure AI-building skill
repligate · x · 2026-11-03
In a thread on who shapes AI development, repligate argues that many currently influential people gained status for reasons other than being the best at directly building AI; the ability to navigate the current frontier and gain influence through any channels is a better selector. He also views the situation as dynamic and contested rather than a fixed default, and doesn't accept the status quo as given.
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