Yegge argues AI solves world problems before things get bad; peer replies "sounds horrible"
bradneuberg · x · 2026-11-05
Steve Yegge stakes out a strongly optimistic AGI position: the world's most serious problems stem from uneven distribution of education and intelligence, and AI will soon make intelligence accessible and somewhat uniformly distributed everywhere — so AI will solve the world's problems long before things get really bad.
Developer Brad Neuberg replies bluntly, "Sounds horrible," kicking off a clash over whether uniformly distributed intelligence is a good thing at all.
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