"Generational wealth?" AI commentator argues the coming 'generations' may not include humans
danfaggella · x · 2026-11-07
Responding to the quip "these Anthropic guys have generational wealth now," danfaggella pushes back sharply: generations of what? He argues this isn't a story hominid bloodlines survive into — it's a regime change in all of earth-life, where the coming "generations" may not have humans in the mix.
A compressed take on the tension between frontier-lab wealth creation and existential-risk framing in AI discourse.
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