AI As Profoundly Abnormal Technology - by Scott Alexander
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AI As Profoundly Abnormal Technology .... Scott Alexander Jul 24, 2025 229 48 50 Share Circumstances seem to have cast us as foils to the AI As Normal Technology team; in the public imagination, they’re the “AI will be slow” people, and we’re the “AI will be fast” people. It’s not quite that simple - but it’s pretty close. We really do expect AI to advance much faster than they do. Our biggest disagreement with them is paradigmatic. We think that sometime in the next 2 - 10 years, AI will enter a recursive self-improvement loop that ends with models capable enough to render all of their “well
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