What If Every Forecaster Is Wrong and We Hit Superhuman RSI This Year?
ChrisGPT · x · 2026-11-11
AI community commentator ChrisGPT floats a contrarian scenario: imagine every forecaster and everyone else turns out to be wrong, and we simply hit superhuman recursive self-improvement (RSI) by the end of this year. The post is a semi-serious jab at mainstream AGI timeline predictions, suggesting reality could be far more aggressive than conservative estimates.
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