AI researcher pushes back on 'everything will be solved': diffusion takes decades
niloofar_mire · x · 2026-11-11
A debate sparked by willdepue's claim that AI is catastrophic for science-minded students but "we'll get to know everything and get insane tech." niloofarmire rejects the "everything will be solved" narrative: visit any third-world country and see — humans aren't just people in SF/US, diffusion of technology takes a very long time, and the world is far more resource-constrained than tech optimists assume, leaving many human-flourishing and time-bottlenecked problems unsolved.
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