Dev Calls "Superintelligence" a VC Fundraising Rebrand: Recursive Self-Improvement Hasn't Started
cgarciae88 · x · 2026-11-15
Developer cgarciae88, replying to NielsRogge, said Dwarkesh-style narratives feel "very distant from reality." His take: "superintelligence" is one of the cringiest terms he's seen — a rebrand of AI to extract more money from VCs — and recursive self-improvement hasn't started: researchers are just prompting "speed it up," yielding cute kernel optimizations and hyperparameter sweeps at best. A representative practitioner pushback against SF AGI hype.
Related event: Debate erupts over Dwarkesh's recursive self-improvement claims(3 posts)→
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