everyone’s a genius in a bubble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA9xQT2cPhE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260804-aschenbrenner-bet-everything-on-ai-and-lost - podcast
time: 8 min 51 sec
JFC it’s already been 2 years
youtube comments:
Couldnt happen to a nicer slender man
Are we entering the “identifying who will be going to prison” stage of this scam now? I’d love it as this is my favorite part.
“Situational Awareness”?, what’s the next of the next company, “Object Permanence”?
How on earth could that kid walk and talk without forgetting to breathe. I assume he’s writing a fucking book. Sorry. ‘Writing’ a fucking ‘book’
When I was 24, guys like that were just that weirdo from school who you met once on the street in Dublin and asked him what he was up to and he told you he was working somewhere you’d never heard of and you never heard of him again. Now these gobshites are in charge of serious things and serious money, as well as being famous.
So he didn’t realize he was in a bubble? Sounds like he could’ve used some. Some sit–some situational–
As a visualization of how wild this could be, look at some Youtube videos of video game speedruns, such as this one of beating Minecraft in 20 seconds.
Now imagine this applied to all domains of science, technology, and the economy.
Tell me you have the mental maturity of a 12 year old without telling me you have the mental maturity of a 12 year old.





