Niels Rogge calls 'superintelligence' VC rebrand; Malone defends Dwarkesh's right to opine
draecomino · x · 2026-11-16
Malone replies to Niels Rogge: Dwarkesh's take on superintelligence is a person's reasoned opinion that doesn't need to be stopped just because others disagree. In the quoted tweet, Rogge had slammed Dwarkesh videos as 'distant from reality,' arguing 'superintelligence' is a rebrand of AI to extract more money from VCs, and that recursive self-improvement hasn't started — models just do 'cute kernel optimizations and hyperparameter sweeps' while human researchers prompt 'speed it up.' A typical AI-circle fight over the AGI narrative.
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