'AI can't be close to AGI, cancer isn't cured' — the dung beetle fallacy
danfaggella · x · 2026-11-11
Dan Faggella pushes back on the argument that AGI must be far away because AI hasn't cured cancer, with a dung beetle analogy: a beetle watching humans build cities would conclude we're not smart since we can't roll very large dung balls — critiquing measuring AI by human-centric task lists.
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