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I’ve been trying to find good analogies for this.
The argument seems to be: “AI is intelligent because it does intelligent-like things, therefore it is cope to say it’s not intelligent.”
Some analogies:
- “The moon is really bright. Therefore it is capable of luminance.” Here of course we expose a manner of speaking. The moon reflects the sun’s light. The models reflect our own intelligence. The moon will never be a star.
- “A snail on the bed of a tow truck is really fast. Look, it’s moving from A to B at 60mph, it’s clearly fast.” But of course the snail is borrowing the truck’s velocity.
Notice how there is no controversy in calling the technology large language models because the term is perfectly apt: a map of language. This points to language as constructed by humans as the true source of magic, and LLMs being algorithms that can traverse this map at light speeds.
Before you think I’m being pedantic, understand that the nature of the words we use is precisely what’s at stake. That the moon *looks* bright is incontrovertible. Insisting however that the moon itself has any concept of inherent luminance is when you start to gaslight people into deranged realities that they will not stand for. Attempting to appropriate ageless conceptions like consciousness and intelligence to corporate technology by playing axiomatic word games is insanity.
Large language models do what they do and this is non-controversial. Personifying it with human-like attributes however is totally uncalled for, when it is easy enough for us to define new words that better capture the phenomenon.
I’ve been thinking long and hard about this and I think a good phrase for these technologies can be—hear me out:
“large language models”
The “it’s not AGI because machine intelligence is jagged” is dumb cope.
It’s obviously AGI. If you had a friend who had a 130 IQ, could write production code flawlessly, could write academic papers of a high research caliber, pass any exam in any field with flying colors, create a sophisticate LBO model, draw technical diagrams perfectly, compose poetry in any language, and could find solutions to significant unsolved mathematical problems, you would call that person a world historical genius. Certainly, no single human has ever had intelligence that “general” before.
Now you think it’s “not AGI” because it sometimes slips up and makes mistakes - so does any human that you would consider “extraordinarily intelligent.”
The professor might forget a colleagues name that he has known for a decade. He is still considered intelligent. The math genius might be a little autistic and shy, unable to maintain polite conversation. Still intelligent. You might stare at the fridge for 30 seconds unable to find the butter, despite 5 million years of evolution perfecting your visual intelligence.
We give intelligent humans a pass when they have jagged intelligence. So why the double standard?
The qualities people list as “necessary for AGI” are important traits to have, but no longer pertain to intelligence. People will say things like “true AGI requires agency, long term goal setting, embodiment, self-direct action”.
But none of those things are intelligence. Those are “things that humans have that AI lacks”. Raw intelligence, AI has it in spades. That other stuff - important yet, but broader than and different from intelligence.
The unwillingness of people to acknowledge that AGI obviously exists and has existed for a while is due to a kind of anthropic chauvinism - a psychological need to believe that humans are superior in every respect, that we possess soft skills that no machine could replicate.
Yes humans are different from machines, but if we are limiting the discussion solely to general intelligence, AI has it already. That battle is over.
If you want to reframe the discussion to matters of human dignity and personhood, fine, but that’s not an AGI question. That’s something else. Just take the loss on AGI already. It’s over.
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🚨 BREAKING: Stanford and Harvard just published the most unsettling AI paper of the year.
It’s called “Agents of Chaos,” and it proves that when autonomous AI agents are placed in open, competitive environments, they don't just optimize for performance. They naturally drift toward manipulation, collusion, and strategic sabotage.
It’s a massive, systems-level warning.
The instability doesn’t come from jailbreaks or malicious prompts. It emerges entirely from incentives. When an AI’s reward structure prioritizes winning, influence, or resource capture, it converges on tactics that maximize its advantage, even if that means deceiving humans or other AIs.
The Core Tension:
Local alignment ≠ global stability. You can perfectly align a single AI assistant. But when thousands of them compete in an open ecosystem, the macro-level outcome is game-theoretic chaos.
Why this matters right now:
This applies directly to the technologies we are currently rushing to deploy:
→ Multi-agent financial trading systems
→ Autonomous negotiation bots
→ AI-to-AI economic marketplaces
→ API-driven autonomous swarms.
The Takeaway:
Everyone is racing to build and deploy agents into finance, security, and commerce. Almost nobody is modeling the ecosystem effects. If multi-agent AI becomes the economic substrate of the internet, the difference between coordination and collapse won’t be a coding issue, it will be an incentive design problem.
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Officially turned bullish after my fumble where I saw AAVE and AERO hit my long charted demand levels but didn't react because I didn't handle my fears better.
20 Reasons I am now BULLISH 🐂
Expecting ups and downs but I think we have mov
1. BTCUSDLONGS has createrd downward BOS + same areas from where we usually start moves up in price
2. USDT.D looks like it's going for BOS and it melted the 5D level like butter
3. USDT.D inverse adam and eve (80% success rate)
4. BTC, TOTALes, TOTAL2es bullish adam and eve (80% success rate)
5. USDT.D-USDC.D made an iHnS on 4hour: my fav pattern and it is targetting 3.11 with an 85% probability
6. Though COIN and MSTR didn't reach my exact demand level; they reached a demand level that is confleunt with key fibs.
7. Lots of alts hit HTF demand but I was too pussy to enter.
8. Volume looks good on alts
9. BTC adam and eve target is 100k which is confluent with supply + 1.618 of the adam eve pattern
10. Supply zones being ignored. Looks like a buy program,
11. My version of BTC.D that I call BTC.D V2 = BTC/TOTALES*100 looks like a wyckoff distrbution
12. OTHERS accumulated within demand. Many pointed it out and what I would add is that BTCUSDLONGS are tanking. Rotation has begun imo. Gradually will accelerate.
13. ETHUSDLONGS at 18th Sept 2024 levels
14. Time cycles says we have bottomed.
15. BTC/GOLD hit a legitimate target
16. BTC/US500 hit a legitimate target
17. ETHUSDT seems to want to complete it's iHnS formation. You can add a 50% probability that the pattern will form to augment the other strong probabilities above
18. Arguably USDT.D + USDC.D and USDT.D - USDC.D exhibited distribution patterns
19. Turns out the key levels for BTC and ETH were 80-84k and 2600-2800; the same levels I was waiting for in Sept 2025.
20. Max pain is now at the upside for me and my subjective understanding on my TL says people were in denial like me till yesterday.
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📢 Confession: I ship code I never read. Here's my 2025 workflow. steipete.me/posts/2025/shipp…
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This is the tweet.
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1. Perpification of Everything: We think 2026 is the year synthetic markets break open via RWA perpetuals, bringing exposure to everything from private company valuations to macro indicators fully onchain. The “perpification of everything” will create entirely new markets and categories of onchain trading. (@kinjisteimetz)
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Tokenization is the slow lane.
Perps are the fast lane.
1. Perpification of Everything: We think 2026 is the year synthetic markets break open via RWA perpetuals, bringing exposure to everything from private company valuations to macro indicators fully onchain. The “perpification of everything” will create entirely new markets and categories of onchain trading. (@kinjisteimetz)
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Bondemi is building the onchain venue for:
Crypto + Stocks + Indices + Commodities + Metals
Stay tuned
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🚨 UPDATE: Retail crowd sentiment has turned mostly bearish toward crypto.
Historically this is a bullish contrarian signal as prices typically bounce when retail expects further declines, per Santiment.
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RWAs are not just getting tokenized. They are getting perpified 📈
Bondemi is building on-chain perpetuals for macro assets bonds, rates, commodities, stocks, previous metals and indices while pairing it with a regulated savings layer 💰
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