Engineer: You Can't Self-Declare Being a Hacker, OG, Genius, or Frontier Lab

Michael_D_Moor · x · 2026-11-10

Michael Moor offers a wry observation on AI-community status culture: some identities — hacker, OG, genius, frontier lab — are only valid when others confer them; self-declaring looks odd at best. He frames these as necessary-but-not-sufficient conditions: others saying it doesn't make it true, but saying it yourself guarantees it isn't.

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