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My hobby: running deranged surveys - by Leo Gao

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you can just ask people things

My hobby: running deranged surveys you can just ask people things Leo Gao Mar 19, 2026 36 7 Share In late 2024, I was on a long walk with some friends along the coast of the San Francisco Bay when the question arose of just how much of a bubble we live in. It’s well known that the Bay Area is a bubble, and that normal people don’t spend that much time thinking about things like AGI. But there was still some disagreement on just how strong that bubble is. I made a spicy claim: even at NeurIPS, the biggest gathering of AI researchers in the world, half the people wouldn’t know what AGI is. As go

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