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@DeRonin_: whatever trillionaires say to you, keep in mind this phrase: "The only free cheese is in a mousetrap." or when AI will …

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 3d ago Cached

A skeptical tweet reacting to Anthropic's announcement of committing 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, warning that trillionaires' 'free' offers come with hidden strings and invoking AI doomsday scenarios.

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@Tanxinbuzu: Seeing Terence Tao getting roasted on the TL Terence Tao, in order to disparage AI, designed a thought experiment: sayi…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-10-11

网友吐槽陶哲轩为质疑AI而设计的“AI研发抗癌药但机制不明”的思想实验,认为其忽视了生物医学中很多药物本就机制不清的现实,提醒做思想实验不要脱离自己的熟悉领域。

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LLMs Aren't Inevitable

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-10 Cached

A blog post arguing that the claim 'AI is inevitable' is a thought-terminating cliché, exploring what inevitability means for technologies and why LLMs likely don't meet those criteria given contingent social and cultural structures.

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AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon

MIT Technology Review ↗ · 2026-10-08 Cached

An MIT Technology Review feature argues that AI breakthroughs in humanoid robotics, championed by figures like Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, and Jensen Huang, are unlikely to transform everyday life soon, as many researchers doubt language-and-vision AI models can master the physical world's complexity.

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"this is where i stop calling AI a tool. a tool doesnt do in one release what the best humans do in a lifetime"

Reddit r/singularity ↗ · 2026-10-07

A short commentary tweet arguing that AI has progressed beyond being a mere tool, claiming it can now do in a single release what the best humans achieve in a lifetime.

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@paulg: "Do not bet against the airplane. The skeptics who say AI can't conjecture, can't theorize, and can't explain are descr…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-10-03 Cached

Paul Graham shares DeepMind researcher Christian Szegedy's essay arguing that skeptics claiming AI cannot conjecture, theorize, or explain are already outdated, comparing the momentum to the Wright brothers' airplane.

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@BenjaminDEKR: I dunno man, 2 years sounds a lot like "just around the corner"

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-10-02 Cached

A tweet expressing skepticism about Yann LeCun's claim that human-level AI is more than two years away, quipping that "2 years" sounds like "just around the corner." LeCun argued current AI remains far from matching human and animal intelligence.

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What was the mafia meeting of the tech criminals about at the White House?

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA ↗ · 2026-09-30

The article speculates that the White House meeting of major tech industry leaders focused largely on efforts to ban or regulate open models and curb China's AI progress, questioning the meeting's true motives.

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@TheAhmadOsman: If you fall for that safety narrative about GPT 6.1 Astra being pulled blah blah please let me know as I got a few thin…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-09-29

A tweet by @TheAhmadOsman expresses skepticism about the safety narratives surrounding the rumored pulling of the GPT 6.1 Astra AI model.

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@VraserX: These are supposedly leaked Gemini 4 Pro benchmarks, so yeah, very likely bullshit. But if they’re real, Gemini 4 Pro w…

X AI KOLs Following ↗ · 2026-09-28 Cached

The article discusses leaked benchmarks for Gemini 4 Pro, suggesting it could outperform GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5, but the author remains skeptical due to Google's history of benchmark manipulation.

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The Surprising Reasons China Is Skeptical of A.I. Safety Calls

Reddit r/ArtificialInteligence ↗ · 2026-09-27

The article explores why China is skeptical of international calls for AI safety, likely due to geopolitical and strategic factors.

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The Download: why AI’s latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than reality

MIT Technology Review ↗ · 2026-09-22 Cached

The article critiques the hype around AI breakthroughs and fears, arguing for skepticism due to commercial incentives and misdirection. It also highlights global calls for AI oversight and updates on data center regulations and AMD's stock milestone.

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A $40M model is being sold on calibrated confidence, and no calibration data has been published

Reddit r/artificial ↗ · 2026-09-21

TypeSafe AI launched model Jev with claims of calibrated confidence in AI responses, but the absence of published calibration data has sparked skepticism despite strong early adoption metrics.

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Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-09-20 Cached

Not all AI workers believe that artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity; many are skeptical of recent high-profile warnings about AI-induced human extinction.

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Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-09-20 Cached

The article argues that chat-based Large Language Models create an illusion of intelligence through mechanisms similar to a psychic's cold reading, using validation statements and the Forer effect, suggesting that perceived reasoning is a statistical trick rather than true intelligence.

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Your ‘health age’ is fake

The Verge ↗ · 2026-09-16 Cached

The article argues that 'health age' metrics from various wearable devices are often inaccurate and inconsistent, advising users to view them with skepticism due to varying algorithms and potential misleading interpretations.

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@perrymetzger: Any time someone tells you that AI has an X% chance of wiping out humanity, ask them for their math that got them the n…

X AI KOLs Following ↗ · 2026-09-16

The tweet criticizes claims about AI extinction risk by urging people to demand mathematical justification, implying that unsupported percentages should be dismissed.

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Seriously, if AI is so dangerous why aren't the Chinese scared?

Reddit r/ArtificialInteligence ↗ · 2026-09-13

The article questions why China appears unconcerned about AI dangers, suggesting alternative explanations like a stock market pump by US companies or a cover for slow research progress.

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Someone explain it to me like. I’m five. They know they can shut the data centers off, right?

Reddit r/artificial ↗ · 2026-09-13

The author questions AI doomsday scenarios by pointing out that data centers can be shut off, arguing against fears of AI copying itself or taking over the internet.

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@tszzl: strongly empathize with the instinct to be skeptical when a lot of powerful parties are saying something in concert. i …

X AI KOLs Following ↗ · 2026-09-12

The tweet expresses skepticism about powerful entities acting in concert and emphasizes the need to verify the verifiers, predicting their growing influence in the future.

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